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The aim of the paper is to present possible time structures for the task of describing economic phenomena, and to propose an ontology for such time structures.The paper thus describes some possible time structures. Since a simple linear time structure is not enough for this task, use of more complex structures are proposed. The paper also deals with the problem of representing time while reasoning about changing economic domain. The modification of Hobbs and Pan time ontology is proposed and formalized. Also the resulting ontology is augmented with proposal of Hajnicz and McDermott to provide basis for representing both abstract branching time as well as the calendar one.
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The solution presented in this section comes from [6, p. 24–25].
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Mach-Król, M. (2015). Nonlinear Time Structures and Nonlinear Time Ontology for Description of Economic Phenomena. In: Mach-Król, M., M. Olszak, C., Pełech-Pilichowski, T. (eds) Advances in ICT for Business, Industry and Public Sector. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 579. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11328-9_5
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