AIJul 21, 2021

SituationCO v1.2's Terms, Properties, Relationships and Axioms -- A Core Ontology for Particular and Generic Situations

arXiv:2107.10083v11 citations
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This work is incremental, providing a specification update for ontology developers in semantic web or AI fields.

The paper updates SituationCO v1.2, a core ontology for particular and generic situations, by specifying its terms, properties, relationships, and axioms within a multi-layered ontological architecture, but does not report any experimental results or concrete improvements.

The current preprint is an update to SituationCO v1.1 (Situation Core Ontology), which represents its new version 1.2. It specifies and defines all the terms, properties, relationships and axioms of SituationCO v1.2, being an ontology for particular and generic Situations placed at the core level in the context of a four-layered ontological architecture called FCD-OntoArch (Foundational, Core, and Domain Ontological Architecture for Sciences). This is a four-layered ontological architecture, which considers Foundational, Core, Domain and Instance levels. In turn, the domain level is split down in two sub-levels, namely: Top-domain and Low-domain ontological levels. So in fact, we can consider it to be a five-tier architecture. Ontologies at the same level can be related to each other, except for the foundational level where only ThingFO (Thing Foundational Ontology) is found. In addition, ontologies' terms and relationships at lower levels can be semantically enriched by ontologies' terms and relationships from the higher levels. Note that both ThingFO and ontologies at the core level such as SituationCO, ProcessCO, among others, are domain independent. SituationCO's terms and relationships are specialized primarily from ThingFO. It also completely reuses terms primarily from ProcessCO, ProjectCO and GoalCO ontologies. Stereotypes are the used mechanism for enriching SituationCO terms. Note that in the end of this document, we address the SituationCO vs. ThingFO non-taxonomic relationship verification matrix.

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