- From: Ansgar Scherp <scherp@uni-koblenz.de>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:19:09 +0200
- To: public-lod@w3.org, Ansgar Scherp <scherp@uni-koblenz.de>
Dear all It is quite interesting to see this very long thread on events. In the past time we have studied many event models (see, e.g., the list Raphael Troncy sent around). When studying them, I was very surprised that for many of them no foundational literature was studied (philosophy, linguistics, cognitive sciences, etc.). Rather, the models seem to be developed add hoc and remain in fact quite simple for the always argued reason of "being generic". Libby Miller says, "events are difficult and complex things to model". And we would like to stress that fact. Indeed, getting a fully comprehensive understanding of what events are is very difficult and challenging. As such, a simple model will hardly work. In particular, when interoperability between different systems is needed. Thus, I am happy to announce that at this year's Knowledge Capturing conference we will present the Event-Model-F that aims filling the gap of a comprehensive and at the same time semantically precise event model [1]. The event model is available in OWL and axiomatized using DL (see older TR [2]). What I did for this event model is reading literature of foundational sciences and discussing the topic with philosophers. The Event-Model-F provides comprehensive support to represent * time and space, * objects and persons participating in events, and * mereological, causal, and correlative relationships between events. In addition, the Event-Model-F provides a flexible means for * event composition, * modeling event causality and event correlation, and * representing different interpretations of the same event. As sometimes not all of this functionality is needed, the event model is organized in patterns. Thus, it is easier to understand to use (just take what you need and the leave the rest out). The event model has its own webpage, where also comprehensive examples are available, e.g., from the emergency response domain: http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/eventmodel/ Documentation of the Event-Model-F can be found in [1]. Finally, I would like to draw your attention to a workshop conjunct with this year's ACM Multimedia conference that is concerned of events as happenings in the real world. This is an effort done together with Ramesh Jain and Mohan Kankanhalli. http://www.uni-koblenz.de/confsec/eimm09/ Best Ansgar [1] A. Scherp, T. Franz, C. Saathoff and S. Staab, F---A Model of Events based on the Foundational Ontology DOLCE+DnS Ultralight, International Conference on Knowledge Capturing (K-CAP), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, September, 2009. http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/eventmodel/event-model-f-kcap.pdf [2] A. Scherp, T. Franz, C. Saathoff, S. Staab: A Model of Events based on a Foundational Ontology, Technical Report of the Department of Computer Science, 02/2009, University of Koblenz-Landau, ISSN (Online) 1864-0850 -- Dr. Ansgar Scherp University of Koblenz-Landau Institute for Computer Science Phone: +49(0)261/287-2717 Universitätsstraße 1 Fax : +49(0)261/287-2721 D-56070 Koblenz-Metternich Mail : scherp@uni-koblenz.de
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