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Mappings between OpenCyc terms and Wikipedia article names provided by Olena Medelyan and Catherine Legg, University of Waikato, NZ under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. 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. A collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViADZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Event</a>s; a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj8AZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerProcessRunning</a>. In every instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv0wUyZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Emulation</a>, one computer system performs in exactly the same way (although perhaps not at the same speed) as another system of a different type. The emulator may consist solely of software, or be a combination of software and hardware. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvvJde5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EmulatorProgram</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvaYx6JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EmulatorHardware</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwNBKb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">emulatesType</a>. emulation Emulation Emulator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulator A collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViADZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Event</a>s; a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj8AZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerProcessRunning</a>. In every instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv0wUyZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Emulation</a>, one computer system performs in exactly the same way (although perhaps not at the same speed) as another system of a different type. The emulator may consist solely of software, or be a combination of software and hardware. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvvJde5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EmulatorProgram</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvaYx6JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EmulatorHardware</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwNBKb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">emulatesType</a>. emulation Emulation A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rHQdVmB_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">SecondOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rsptUGhfiQdmQ1dIv6htA7Q" class="cyc_term">ProcessType</a> is the collection intersection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwNyXxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DurativeEventType</a>; that is, a thing is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rsptUGhfiQdmQ1dIv6htA7Q" class="cyc_term">ProcessType</a> if and only if it is an instance of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwNyXxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DurativeEventType</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rsptUGhfiQdmQ1dIv6htA7Q" class="cyc_term">ProcessType</a> can be constructed from instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv48ocpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a> using <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r0VWpmNnEQdiJDq0mDlTBkQ" class="cyc_term">ProcessFn</a> (q.v.). ProcessType type of temporally stuff-like thing that is also a type of durative event A collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViADZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Event</a>s; a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj8AZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerProcessRunning</a>. In every instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv0wUyZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Emulation</a>, one computer system performs in exactly the same way (although perhaps not at the same speed) as another system of a different type. The emulator may consist solely of software, or be a combination of software and hardware. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvvJde5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EmulatorProgram</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvaYx6JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EmulatorHardware</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwNBKb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">emulatesType</a>. emulation Emulation Wikipedia Article URL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNv0nbm4TTjOp7yhmnzOyqg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL wikipediaArticleURL ComputerProcessRunning The collection of events in which a process is executed on a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjXzZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Computer</a>, and therefore using the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjXzZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Computer</a>'s resources. Examples: a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwJxiRJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerProgram_CW</a> running, an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViws5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OperatingSystem</a> in use, or a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkXZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerCrashing</a> event. Important specs are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv5kxb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerProcess_Generic</a> for the complete operation of a computer program from start to finish and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViLSJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ProgramAction</a> for the execution of code as designed (thus excluding the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkXZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerCrashing</a> event.) running computer process computer activity type An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViA4pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SiblingDisjointCollectionType</a>. Each instance of this (second-order) collection is a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViFUJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerActivity</a> all of whose instances are a particular and distinct type of activity. Examples include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvdMvgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EMailSending</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BootingAComputer</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjkXZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerCrashing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvm2Dx5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OnlineChat</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvv-fq5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AttackByComputerOperation</a> is not an instance as it is not distinct enough. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvzTVp5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EnteringAComputerPassword</a> is an instance, but <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwOH4i5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EnteringADomainAdministratorPassword</a> is not as it is too specific. This collection is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViA4pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SiblingDisjointCollectionType</a> because it is assumed that computer-related activities are analysed fine-grainedly enough that if a putative instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViFUJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerActivity</a> would fall under two sibling <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rzJQyqGkeEdaAAAABAxv-7A" class="cyc_term">ComputerActivityType</a>s, it should be analysed as two events. ComputerActivityType wikipediaArticleName (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTv-jk9SPTXa991kk5mAvHg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleName</a> THING NAME) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article with the title NAME Wikipedia Article Name