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Re: [ontolog-forum] Modeling a money transferring scenario

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From: "Chris Partridge" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:51:10 -0000
Message-id: <007801cbada8$c6800220$53800660$@chrispartridge.net>
Hi Seluk,    (01)

There is some discussion of how to model this in the final chapter of my
book Business Objects -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Business-Objects-Re-engineering-Chris-Partridge/dp/0
955060303/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1294317862&sr=8-3 .    (02)

Chris    (03)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Selcuk Bozdag
> Sent: 06 January 2011 12:29
> To: ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ontolog-forum] Modeling a money transferring scenario
> 
> Hi ontologs,
> 
> I would like to get your ideas about modeling a financial organization's
(e.g.
> a bank)  money transaction ontology using OWL (1). Suppose that a bank
> wants to track the accounts of the customers in order to determine
> anomalies, fraud issues or just to ensure that everything is OK at the end
of
> the day. I have come up with a solution which caused a discussion among my
> colleagues mostly ended with a disagreement. Right below I am giving only
a
> clipped portion of the draft ontology at a glance.
> 
> The absolute classes(i.e. concepts) are Bank, Money, Customer and Account.
> When it comes to represent a money transfer between two accounts, I
> suggested to create another class named "MoneyTransfer" on which one can
> create object properties such as transferDate, amount etc. On the flip
side,
> others put the MoneyTransfer class aside and preferred to create an object
> property named "transfersMoney" which has a domain and range of
> Account. However it is obvious that transfersMoney property is just a
> relation between to individuals representing none of the date and amount
> information.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate if you could explain your point of view and
show
> me what the alternatives could possibly be. I also would be thankful if
you
> refer any other ontology regarding that issue.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Selcuk
> 
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