@inbook{92af97a1c9de4b0bbaf2ec330c2b1503,
title = "Scale in object and process ontologies",
abstract = "Scale is of great importance to the analysis of real world phenomena, be they enduring objects or perduring processes. This paper presents a new perspective on the concept of scale by considering it within two complementary ontological views. The first, called SNAP, recognizes enduring entities or objects, the other, called SPAN, perduring entities or processes. Within the metatheory provided by the complementary SNAP and SPAN ontologies, we apply different theories of formal ontology such as mereology and granular partitions, and ideas derived from hierarchy theory. These theories are applied to objects and processes and form the framework within which we present tentative definitions of scale, which are found to differ between the two ontologies.",
keywords = "Granularity, Hierarchy, Mereology, Ontology, Process, Scale",
author = "Femke Reitsma and Thomas Bittner",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-39923-0\_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "3540201483",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "13--27",
editor = "Werner Kuhn and Michael Worboys and Sabine Timpf",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
address = "Germany",
}