Temporal reasoning in Timegraph I–II

  • Authors:
  • Alfonso Gerevini;Lenhart Schubert;Stephanie Schaeffer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGART Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We describe two temporal reasoning systems called Timegraph I and II, which can efficiently manage large sets of relations in the Point Algebra as well as metric information. Our representation is based on timegraphs, graphs partitioned into a set of chains on which the search is supported by a metagraph data structure. Timegraph I was originally developed by Taugher, Schubert and Miller in the context of story comprehension. Timegraph II provides useful extensions which makes the system more expressive in the representation of qualitative information and suitable for a larger class of applications. Experimental results show that our approach is very efficient, especially when the given relations admit representation as a collection of chains connected by relatively few cross-chain links.