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Name Partition
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SubmittedBy OlafNoppens



Description

Motivation This is a logical pattern to define a partition. It is independant of a specific domain. Partitions are a common modeling structure.
Aim The ontology engineer may say that a class is a partition over other classes (including class expressions). A partition is a structure dividing its content into several parts.
Solution description We introduce two axioms where Partition is the Partition class and B1,...,Bn are arbitrary class expressions (n >= 2) (expressed in OWL 2 Abstract Syntax)

EquivalentClasses(Partition, ObjectUnionOf(B1, ..., Bn))

DisjointClasses(B1, ..., Bn)

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Pattern solution example http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/ki/Noppens/owl/patterns/partition.owl
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This revision (revision ID 5679) takes in account the reviews: Partition (Http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Reviews:MartaSabou about Partition, Http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Reviews:HenrikEriksson about Partition, Http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Reviews:LuigiIannone about Partition 2)

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