The PIF Process Interchange Format and
FrameworkThe PIF Process Interchange Format and
Framework
Jintae Lee, Gregg Yost and the PIF Working Group[1]
Version 1.0
December 22, 1994
Table of Contents
1. Abstract
2. Introduction
3. History and current status
4. PIF
5. Alphabetic Class Reference
6. Extending PIF
7. Appendix A: PIF Syntax
8. Appendix B: An Example PIF File
9. References
9. References
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[1] The members of the PIF Working Group are Michael
Gruninger (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto,
gruninger@ie.utoronto.edu), Yan Jin (Civil Engineering Department, Stanford
University, jin@cive.stanford.edu), Jintae Lee (Information & Computer
Sciences Department, University of Hawaii, jl@uhics.ics.hawaii.edu), Thomas
Malone (Center for Coordination Science, MIT, malone@mit.edu), Gregg Yost
(Corporate Research, Digital Equipment Corporation, yost@accent.mro.dec.com),
and Gilad Zlotkin (Center for Coordination Science, MIT, gilad@mit.edu).
Address comments and correspondence to the PIF Working Group,
pif-comments@mit.edu.
[2] If the target representation happens to be PIF (albeit
Group A's variant of it), the uninterpretable attributes would be stored as
text in the User-Attribute attribute, which all PIF entities have.