F–a model of events based on the foundational ontology DOLCE+DnS Ultralight

The lack of a formal model of events hinders interoper-ability in distributed event-based systems. In this pa-per, we present a formal model of events, called Event-Model-F. The model is based on the foundational ontol-ogy DOLCE+DnS Ultralite (DUL) and provides com-prehensive support to represent time and space, objects and persons, as well as mereological, causal, and cor-relative relationships between events. In addition, the Event-Model-F provides a flexible means for event com-position, modeling event causality and event correla-tion, and representing different interpretations of the same event. The Event-Model-F is developed following the pattern-oriented approach of DUL, is modularized in different ontologies, and can be easily extended by domain specific ontologies