]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. joint venture JointVentureActivity A collection of events. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr865wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">JointVentureActivity</a> is a business activity in which two or more independent companies cooperate to work on a business project mutually beneficial to all. During the venture, each participant is a partner to the others (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr9E5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">businessPartners</a>). Joint ventures are always governed by at least one explicit <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agreement</a>. joint ventures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_venture joint venture JointVentureActivity A collection of events. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr865wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">JointVentureActivity</a> is a business activity in which two or more independent companies cooperate to work on a business project mutually beneficial to all. During the venture, each participant is a partner to the others (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr9E5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">businessPartners</a>). Joint ventures are always governed by at least one explicit <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agreement</a>. MiscellaneousOrganizationConstants-Organization-Topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rAmoSCGJbQdiSXZJvYiNhkQ" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rtGXkHpNaEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. miscellaneous organization constants organization topic activity in a business relationship BusinessRelationshipActivity A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViMOJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BusinessEvent</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8yJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BusinessRelationshipActivity</a> is a (usually long-term, and often complex) social activity whose participants are in some type of business relationship. An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8yJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BusinessRelationshipActivity</a> is typically carried out over multiple social occasions, and may consist of many sub-events. The social events constituting an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr8yJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BusinessRelationshipActivity</a> further, either directly or indirectly, the (usually mutual) business interests of the participants. Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString joint venture JointVentureActivity A collection of events. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr865wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">JointVentureActivity</a> is a business activity in which two or more independent companies cooperate to work on a business project mutually beneficial to all. During the venture, each participant is a partner to the others (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr9E5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">businessPartners</a>). Joint ventures are always governed by at least one explicit <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agreement</a>. joint venture JointVentureActivity A collection of events. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr865wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">JointVentureActivity</a> is a business activity in which two or more independent companies cooperate to work on a business project mutually beneficial to all. During the venture, each participant is a partner to the others (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr9E5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">businessPartners</a>). Joint ventures are always governed by at least one explicit <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agreement</a>. joint venture JointVentureActivity A collection of events. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr865wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">JointVentureActivity</a> is a business activity in which two or more independent companies cooperate to work on a business project mutually beneficial to all. During the venture, each participant is a partner to the others (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQr9E5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">businessPartners</a>). Joint ventures are always governed by at least one explicit <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agreement</a>. type of temporally stuff-like thing A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> (q.v.) whose instances are all and only those collections that are temporally stuff-like. A collection <code>COL</code> is temporally stuff-like just in case every purely temporal part (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a>) of an instance of <code>COL</code> is itself an instance of <code>COL</code>, unless it is a temporal part of a temporal granule of <code>COL</code> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a>). More precisely, for a collection <code>COL</code> to be an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> it is both a necessary and sufficient condition that for any <code>OBJ1</code> and <code>OBJ2</code> (with <code>OBJ2</code> at or above <code>COL</code>'s temporal granularity level), if <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ1 COL)</code> and <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> OBJ1 OBJ2)</code>, then <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ2 COL)</code>. Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. Take an arbitrary instance <code>WALK</code> of this collection (say Miss America 2000's victory walk down the runway and back); and then take an arbitrary time-slice <code>SUBWALK</code> of <code>WALK</code> that subsumes at least one instance of (the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a> for <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViYBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TakingAStep</a> (say her trip back from the end of the runway). <code>SUBWALK</code> is itself an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> for the disjoint notion of being temporally object-like. TemporalStuffType