Review Summary: The authors propose an extension to the N-ary relationship pattern where two major participants are short-circuited by means of an inverse property pair.
While the intent is admirable (though it requires a clearer explanation), such a solution does not seem to take into account possible in-house solutions provided by the ontology language.
Problems: The pattern naming can be confusing, since it somehow looks more like a "bridged" or "short-circuited" n-ary relationship.
In OWL2, there should be some consideration for property chaining, which could link the properties that hold between the main actors and the N-ary relationship class. This would partly offer an in-house solution to the issue addressed as well as an elegant way to link relationships with one another, though it would probably require the intervention of reasoners.
Overall Understandability: Flawed. Could raise the score by one entire point if properly reformulated (see below).
Watch out for a few typos : "patter" and "exits" in the motivation, "querys" in the problem example, "taht" in the consequences...
Clear Problem Description: The problem is better described in the example than in the motivation. The three reasons for using this pattern are not very clear at all: what does it mean that a relationship "is really amongst" several things and that it "really needs" a further argument? Are these three conditions supposed to hold altogether? It looks like that.
On the other hand, the aim to speed up frequent queries is comprehensible.
Clear Figures and Illustrations: The figures seem to show that some inverse properties may be unneeded for what are considered as additional arguments. Also, the abstract version should be made a little more "general", by pointing out that the minor relations are in an arbitrary [1..n] amount.
'Ontology Design Patterns'