[Pellet-users] N-ary relations

[Markus Stocker]

Hi Francois,

Just a short note, you might find this [1] useful,

markus

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-n-aryRelations/

On 9/18/07, Role Francois <francois.role at univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
> Hi Pellet users,
>
> First of all, many thanks to Rob and Bijan for their answers concerning
> how to control debug information.
>
> I have another (unrelated) question. I wonder how n-ary relations (n> 2)
> can be represented in OWL.
> For example suppose the temperature of an object depends both on its
> location and the time of the day as in the foillowing :
>
> temperature(object1,garden,afternoon,20)
> temperature(object1,garden,morning,20)
> temperature(object1,house,afternoon,18)
> ....
>
> Of course we could use binary relations such as :
>
> gardenAfternoonTemperature(object1,20)
> gardenMorningTemperature(objetc1,10)
> ....
>
> But it seems quite awkward...
>
> I realize this is not a Pellet-specific question but if any one has any
> suggestion I would be grateful,
>
> François
>
>
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