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“All the Things that Come and Go, Stop and Say Hello": Towards an ontological account of how participants enter and exit events

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Conceptual Modeling (ER 2022)

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This paper presents an ontological account for how participants enter or exit events, based on a view of events as delimited by systems. With that, we introduce the notions of engaging and disengaging event as the events through which (respectively) an object becomes or ceases to be a participant of a main, external event by becoming or ceasing to be a component of the system that delimits this external event. We argue that it is a general type of event with many practical examples, which reveals a contextual facet of events and may shed light on the notion of roles for events.

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Notes

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    Sometimes also referred to as endurants.

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    Sometimes also referred to as processes, perdurants, or occurrents.

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Research supported by CAPES (Funding Code 001), CNPq, and Project Petwin (financed by FINEP and LIBRA Consortium). The third author also thanks the support of Petrobras.

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  1. Informatics Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Fabrício Henrique Rodrigues, Joel Luís Carbonera, Lucas Valadares Vieira & Mara Abel

  2. Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Rodrigues, F.H., Carbonera, J.L., Vieira, L.V., Abel, M. (2022). “All the Things that Come and Go, Stop and Say Hello": Towards an ontological account of how participants enter and exit events. In: Ralyté, J., Chakravarthy, S., Mohania, M., Jeusfeld, M.A., Karlapalem, K. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13607. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17995-2_8

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