tOWL : integrating time in OWL

F. Frasincar, D.V. Milea, U. Kaymak

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Abstract

TheWeb Ontology Language (OWL) is the most expressive standard language for modeling ontologies on the SemanticWeb. In this chapter, we present the temporal OWL (tOWL) language: a temporal extension of the OWL DL language. tOWL is based on three layers added on top of OWL DL. The first layer is the Concrete Domains layer, which allows the representation of restrictions using concrete domain binary predicates. The second layer is the Time Representation layer, which adds time points, intervals, and Allen’s 13 interval relations. The third layer is the Change Representation layer which supports a perdurantist view on the world, and allows the representation of complex temporal axioms, such as state transitions. A Leveraged Buyout process is used to exemplify the different tOWL constructs and show the tOWL applicability in a business context.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSemantic web information management : a model-based perspective
EditorsR. Virgilio, de, F. Giunchiglia, L. Tanca
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages225-246
Number of pages549
ISBN (Print)978-3-642-04328-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume80
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

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