Ma, Jixin, Knight, Brian and Petridis, Miltos (2008) Characterizing the most general temporal constraint. In: ECAI-08 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, 22 Jul 2008, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper introduces a characterization of 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". The formalism is based on general time theory which takes both points and intervals as primitive. 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. These causal relationships are versatile enough to subsume those representatives in the literature.

Item Type:	Conference or Conference Paper (Paper)
Additional Information:	[1] Published in 2008. [2] Produced as: Ma, Jixin, Knight, Brian and Petridis, Miltos (2008) Characterizing the most general temporal constraints. In: ECAI-08 Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, 22 Jul 2008, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. (Unpublished). [3] This paper was presented at the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, one of several workshops which ran in conjunction with the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008), held 21-25 July 2008, Patras, Greece. [4] Paper was not formally published, but included in proceedings which were in the form of Working Notes.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	general temporal constraint (GTC), general time theory, causal relationship
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
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Last Modified:	14 Oct 2016 09:03
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/1232

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