An Interval Algebra for Indeterminate Time

Abstract

Temporal indeterminacy is an inherent problem which arises when capturing and manipulating temporal data in many ap-plication areas. As such, representation and manipulation of timestamps with indeterminacy is a requirement for these ap-plications. We present an extension of Allen’s thirteen in-terval relationships to indeterminate temporal intervals based on a novel representation for indeterminate timestamps. The timestamps can be derived from and translated to interval constraints. We provide a set of simple and useful operators for manipulating both convex and non-convex indeterminate intervals represented by these timestamps.

Cite

Text

Cowley and Plexousakis. "An Interval Algebra for Indeterminate Time." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000.

Markdown

[Cowley and Plexousakis. "An Interval Algebra for Indeterminate Time." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2000/cowley2000aaai-interval/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{cowley2000aaai-interval,
  title     = {{An Interval Algebra for Indeterminate Time}},
  author    = {Cowley, Wes and Plexousakis, Dimitris},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2000},
  pages     = {470-475},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2000/cowley2000aaai-interval/}
}