Ma, Jixin, Knight, Brian and Petridis, Miltos (2006) A versatile characterization of causal relationships. Research In Computing Science, 26. pp. 15-24. ISSN 1870-4069

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Abstract

This paper introduces a framework for representing versatile temporal relationships between events and their effects. The framework is based on a simple time model which characterizes each time element as a subset of the set of real numbers and allows expression of both absolute time values and relative temporal relations. The formalism presented here formally specifies the so-called most general temporal constraint (GTC), which guarantees the common-sense assertion that “the beginning of the effect cannot precede the beginning of the cause”. It is shown that there are in fact 8 possible causal relationships which satisfy GTC, including cases where, on the one hand, effects start simultaneously with, during, immediately after, or some time after their causes, and on the other hand, events end before, simultaneously with, or after their causes. The causal relationships characterized in this paper are versatile enough to subsume those representatives in the literature.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Poster of this title presented at MICAI-2006. 5th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. November 13-17, 2006. Apizaco, Mexico.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	time modelling, temporal modelling, temporal relationships, time model
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics
Pre-2014 Departments:	School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Computer & Computational Science Research Group School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences > Department of Computer Science
Related URLs:	Publisher Organisation
Last Modified:	30 Sep 2019 14:03
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/1025

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