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is possible to think about quantity as a property instead of an entity, it is neces-
sary to represent it by a term to follow the minimal encoding bias criterion [14].
Additionally, this Quantity term must be related to the EBDItem term by a formal
relation. Figure3.10 shows a portion of the ontology after making the quantity and
temporal features explicit.
To represent the features of products, three terms are added: Type, Size, and
Trademark. e Trademark term is related to another term, Trademark Dimension,
covering the representation dimension of the feature trademark. is ...