Title
A core ontology on events for representing occurrences in the real world
Abstract
Events are central aspect of many semantic ambient media applications such as surveillance, smart homes, automobiles, and others. Existing models for events typically do not follow a systematic development approach, are conceptually narrow with respect to event features, and their semantics is often ambiguous. This makes the communication between and integration of different event-based components and event-based semantic ambient media applications a challenging task. In this paper, we present the Event-Model-F, a formal model of events based on the foundational ontology DOLCE+DnS Ultralite (DUL). The Event-Model-F provides comprehensive support to represent time and space, objects and persons, mereological, causal, and correlative relationships between events, and different interpretations of the same event. It is developed following a pattern-oriented ontology design approach and can be easily extended by domain specific ontologies. We introduce the design and implementation of an application programming interface that allows for easy integration of the Event-Model-F in arbitrary applications. The use of the Event-Model-F is demonstrated at the example of a socio-technical system of emergency response and implemented in the SemaPlorer+驴+ application for creating and sharing event descriptions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s11042-010-0667-z
Multimedia Tools Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Events,Models,Principles,Pattern-oriented ontology design,Core ontologies
Ontology,Computer science,Mereology,Theoretical computer science,Artificial intelligence,Application programming interface,Ontology (information science),Ontology-based data integration,Process ontology,Pattern recognition,Information retrieval,Core ontology,Semantics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
58
2
1380-7501
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.89
36
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ansgar Scherp167380.74
Thomas Franz229918.15
Carsten Saathoff340126.69
Steffen Staab46658593.89