A Temporal Web Ontology Language

44 Pages Posted: 5 Oct 2009

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U. Kaymak

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Faculty of Economics - Department of Computer Science; Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

Date Written: 22 2009 9,

Abstract

The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is the most expressive standard language for modeling ontologies on the Semantic Web. In this paper, we present a temporal extension of the very expressive fragment SHIN(D) of the OWL-DL language resulting in the tOWL language. Through a layered approach we introduce 3 extensions: i) Concrete Domains, that allows the representation of restrictions using concrete domain binary predicates, ii) Temporal Representation, that introduces timepoints, relations between timepoints, intervals, and Allen’s 13 interval relations into the language, and iii) TimeSlices/Fluents, that implements a perdurantist view on individuals and allows for the representation of complex temporal aspects, such as process state transitions. We illustrate the expressiveness of the newly introduced language by providing a TBox representation of Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) processes in financial applications and an ABox representation of one specific LBO.

Keywords: concrete domains, web, time, OWL, fluents

JEL Classification: M11, R4, M

Suggested Citation

Kaymak, Uzay, A Temporal Web Ontology Language (22 2009 9,). ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2009-050-LIS, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1481024

Uzay Kaymak

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Faculty of Economics - Department of Computer Science ( email )

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3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM)

P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
Netherlands

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