Time is pervasive of the human way of approaching reality, so that it has been widely studied in many research areas, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and relational Temporal Databases (TDB). Indeed, while thousands of TDB papers have been devoted to the treatment of determinate time, only few approaches have faced temporal indeterminacy (i.e., “don’t know exactly when” indeterminacy). In this paper, we propose a new AI-based methodology to approach temporal indeterminacy in relational DBs. We show that typical AI techniques, such as studying the semantics of the representation formalism, and adopting symbolic manipulation techniques based on such a semantics, are very important in the treatment of indeterminate time in relational databases.

An AI Approach to Temporal Indeterminacy in Relational Databases

Anselma, Luca;Piovesan, Luca;
2018-01-01

Abstract

Time is pervasive of the human way of approaching reality, so that it has been widely studied in many research areas, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and relational Temporal Databases (TDB). Indeed, while thousands of TDB papers have been devoted to the treatment of determinate time, only few approaches have faced temporal indeterminacy (i.e., “don’t know exactly when” indeterminacy). In this paper, we propose a new AI-based methodology to approach temporal indeterminacy in relational DBs. We show that typical AI techniques, such as studying the semantics of the representation formalism, and adopting symbolic manipulation techniques based on such a semantics, are very important in the treatment of indeterminate time in relational databases.
2018
Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Trujillo, Perù
13-16 November 2018
Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA 2018
Springer
11238
16
28
978-3-030-03927-1
978-3-030-03928-8
Temporal data, Data representation and semantics, Query semantics, Symbolic manipulation
Anselma, Luca; Piovesan, Luca; Terenziani, Paolo
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