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Time and Relations into Focus: Ontological Foundations of Object-Centric Event Data
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Time and Relations into Focus: Ontological Foundations of Object-Centric Event Data

H Hooshyar, Mattia Fumagalli, Marco Montali and G Guizzardi
Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 38th International Conference, CAiSE 2026, Verona, Italy, June 8–12, 2026, Proceedings, Part II, Vol.16559, pp.348-365
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 16559
38th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Verona, 08/06/2026–12/06/2026)
2026
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/10863/52543

Abstract

Object-centric process mining extends traditional approaches by associating events with multiple objects and capturing their interactions, which are essential to understanding process dynamics. However, existing case-centric models and current Object-Centric Event Data (OCED) approaches struggle with ambiguity and limited support for time and dynamic relations. In this work, we address these limitations through a three-step approach. First, we analyze key issues in existing OCED metamodels, highlighting their ambiguity and expressiveness gaps. Second, we enhance the OCED Core Model by grounding it in gUFO, a lightweight version of the UFO-B foundational ontology for representing objects, events, time, and their relations, resulting in a new metamodel called gOCED. Third, we show that gOCED preserves the simplicity of existing models while extending them to resolve the identified limitations.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-28117-3_20View

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