Abstract
This chapter introduces the Simple Event Model and shows how it can be used for modeling events and their related concepts like actors, places, times, and their types. The event modeling discussed in this chapter is motivated from the need to abstract over historical situations to analyze what happened in the past. We show how the Simple Event Model can be used to model events by means of two example cases from different domains related to maritime situation awareness, one having to do with AIS ship observations in a harbor area and one having to do with maritime piracy reports. To show how the Simple Event Model can be used in practice for adaptive information access we demonstrate how an analysis of an open data set from the Semantic Web can be done using the Simple Event Model and the SPARQL query language.
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For more information about these and related ontologies see the extensive discussion in [5].
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GeoNames, http://www.geonames.org/
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Linked Open Piracy: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/lop
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Linked Open Piracy: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/lop
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RDF Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar/
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The entire URI of this instance is http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/poseidon/ns/instances/event_2008_109, which is shortened to the QName poseidon:event_2008_109. Resolving the entire URI in a browser will return more information about this resource. An RDF crawler or a triple store loading over HTTP will get descriptive RDF about this URI instead.
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Basic Geo: http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/
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GeoRSS: http://www.georss.org/rdf_rss1
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Geonames Ontology: http://www.geonames.org/ontology/
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Linked Open Piracy: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/lop/
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ClioPatria triple store: http://cliopatria.swi-prolog.org/
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Acknowledgements
This research has been carried out as a part of the Poseidon project at Thales under the responsibilities of the Embedded Systems Institute (ESI). This project is partially supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs under the BSIK program.
We would like to thank Véronique Malaisé, Laura Hollink and Roxane Segers for their work on the design of SEM and Marieke van Erp for her work on the representation of the Piracy event data set from which one of the examples was taken. Thanks also go to Guus Schreiber for steering all of the work touched upon in this chapter.
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van Hage, W.R., Ceolin, D. (2013). The Simple Event Model. In: van de Laar, P., Tretmans, J., Borth, M. (eds) Situation Awareness with Systems of Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6230-9_10
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