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A Classification of Spatio-temporal Entities Based on Their Location in Space-Time

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops (OTM 2006)

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We present an axiomatic theory of spatio-temporal entities based on the primitives spatial-region, part-of, and is-an-instance-of. We provide a classification of spatio-temporal entities according to the number and kinds of regions at which they are located in spacetime and according to whether they instantiate or are instantiated at those regions. The focus on location and instantiation at a location as the central notions of this theory makes it particularly appropriate for serving as a foundational ontology for geography and geographic information science.

An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11915072_109.

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  1. Department of Philosophy,  

    Thomas Bittner & Maureen Donnelly

  2. Department of Geography,  

    Thomas Bittner

  3. New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences,  

    Thomas Bittner & Maureen Donnelly

  4. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, State University of New York at Buffalo,  

    Thomas Bittner

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  1. STARLab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Bldg G/10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Zahir Tari

  3. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Herrero

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Bittner, T., Donnelly, M. (2006). A Classification of Spatio-temporal Entities Based on Their Location in Space-Time. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11915072_69

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