Querying temporal constraint networks in PTIME

  • Authors:
  • Manolis Koubarakis;Spiros Skiadopoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • AAAI '99/IAAI '99 Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We start with the assumption that temporal knowledge usually cared by constraint networks can be represented and queried more effectively by using the scheme of indefinite constraint databases proposed by Koubarakis. Although query evaluation in this scheme is in general a hard computational problem, we demonstrate that there are sevral interesting cases where query evalation can be done in PTIME. These tractability results are original and subsume previous results by van Beek, Brusoni, Console and Terenziani.