Telos: representing knowledge about information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Parts, wholes, and part-whole relations: the prospects of mereotopology
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on modeling parts and wholes
A conceptual theory of part-whole relations and its applications
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on modeling parts and wholes
Part-whole relations in object-centered systems: an overview
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on modeling parts and wholes
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on modeling parts and wholes
An OODB part-whole model: semantics, notation and implementation
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Implicit versus explicit characterization of complex entities and events
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue on formal ontology and conceptual modeling
Part-Whole Relationship Categories and Their Application in Object-Oriented Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Representation of Complex Objects: Multiple Facets with Part-Whole Hierarchies
ECOOP '91 Proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries: Towards on Ontology of Spatially Extended Objects
COSIT '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS
ISMIS '94 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems
The Semantics of Parts Versus Aggregates in Data/Knowledge Modelling
CAiSE '93 Proceedings of Advanced Information Systems Engineering
GENREG: A Historical Data Model Based on Event Graphs
DEXA '96 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Deriving and Retrieving Contextual Categorical Information through Instance Inheritance
Fundamenta Informaticae
Factual argumentation—a core model for assertions making
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH)
Modelling learning subjects as relationships
IHI'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Intuitive Human Interfaces for Organizing and Accessing Intellectual Assets
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The ontological analysis of parts and wholes gathers recently increasing interest, and develops into a specific research area called mereology. So far, most research has focused on directions motivated by engineering examples and by linguistic analysis. In contrast to these, the related archeological problem is characterized by missing pieces and information, which cannot easily be recovered, and by reasoning and experimentation with multiple hypotheses. This aspect of mereology has not yet been formally analyzed. In this paper, we continue previous work by addressing the formalization of some of the reasoning needed to identify other parts of the same whole through knowledge about some parts, or to narrow down the category of wholes a part may have belonged to. We define a hierarchical and an associative part-of relation with conservative assumptions about dependency and sharing, and proceed to develop a metamodel and a novel reasoning methodology from factual to categorical knowledge. The ontological commitment and utility of this theory is discussed on the base of practical examples. This work is intended as a first step towards a more comprehensive theory covering the problem of reasoning about partially lost items.