Ontologies for dates and duration
Michael Grüninger · Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning · 2010
Reasoning with dates and duration has long been addressed by the community. Existing duration ontologies, however, lack complete axiomatizations of their intended models; many simply represent timedurations as real numbers and treat the duration function as a metric on the timeline. We show that such approaches are inadequate and provide a first-order ontology of duration that overcomes these limitations.