Unification of geospatial reasoning, temporal logic, & social network analysis in event-based systems
Jans Aasman · 2008
This industry paper is about a new type of event database architecture that makes it efficient to reason about things, people, companies, relationships between people and companies, and about places and events. This event database is built on top of a scalable distributed RDF triple store that can handle literally billions of events. Like objects, events have at least one actor, but usually more, a start-time and possibly an end-time, a place where the event happened, and the type of the event. An event can have many additional properties and annotations.