process aggregate

ID
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BCIO:036107

Curation status
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Published
Created
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1 Dec '21

Modified
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13 Jun '25

Parents
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Definition
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An occurrent consisting exactly of a plurality of processes that are process_aggregate_member_parts_of that occurrent for all times at which it exists.

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Informal definition
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Processes that repeat over time.

Fuzzy set
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No

Definition source
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Curator note
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Process aggregate extends BFO in the same way that object aggregate extends its coverage of material entities. It is required to be able to classify occurrents such as behaviour patterns that are repeated occurrences of classes of process that have properties such as average frequency of occurrence (not to be confused with frequency as a process profile) and temporal patterning of occurrences.

BCIO lower level ontology
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Behaviour

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