A new proof of tractability for 0RD-horn relations

  • Authors:
  • Gérard Ligozat

  • Affiliations:
  • LIMSI, CNRS & Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

This paper gives an elementary proof of the tractability of a sub-class of temporal relations in Allen's algebra and related temporal calculi, the class of preconvex relations. In Allen's case, this subclass coincides with the class of ORD-Horn relations. Nebel and Bürckert defined ORD-Horn relations and proved that path-consistency is a sufficient condition for consistency of a network for this sub-class. We prove a stronger result: for each path-consistent network in the sub-class, we give an effective method for constructing a feasible scenario without backtrack.