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General description

Name:	agent role
Submitted by:	User:ValentinaPresutti
Also Known As:
Intent:	To represent agents and the roles they play.
Domains:	Community:Management, Community:Organization, Community:Scheduling
Competency Questions:	which agent does play this role? what is the role that played by that agent?
Solution description:
Reusable OWL Building Block:	http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/agentrole.owl (1586)
Consequences:	This CP allows designers to make assertions on roles played by agents without involving the agents that play that roles, and vice versa. It does not allow to express temporariness of roles.
Scenarios:	She greeted us all in her various roles of mother, friend, and daughter.
Known Uses:
Web References:
Other References:
Examples (OWL files):
Extracted From:	http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontologies/DUL.owl
Reengineered From:
Has Components:
Specialization Of:	Submissions:Submissions:Objectrole
Related CPs:

Elements

The AgentRole Content OP locally defines the following ontology elements:

Reviews

The time indexed person role CP allows to represent temporariness of roles played by persons. It can be generalized for including objects or, alternatively the n-ary classification CP can be specialized in order to obtain the same expressivity.