The Void in Hydro Ontology
Published: Jul 12, 2012
Author(s): Brodaric, Boyan, Hahmann, Torsten
Abstract:
Voids are extremely important to water science, because their size and connectivity determines the storage and flow of water both above and below the ground surface. While previous formal theories about voids strictly consider holes hosted inside objects, we generalize voids to also include spaces between objects, and distinguish voids in macroscopic objects from those occurring microscopically in an object’s matter. These notions are axiomatized in first-order logic as an extension of the DOLCE ontology, and are applied to key aspects of hydrology and hydrogeology, laying the groundwork for a foundational hydro ontology.
Citation:
T. Hahmann, B. Brodaric: The void in hydro ontology. Proc. of the 7th Int. Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS-2012), 2012. IOS Press.
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