Towards a Theory of Movie Database Queries

  • Authors:
  • Bart Kuijpers;Jan Paredaens; Dirk Van Gucht

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • TIME '00 Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME'00)
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We present a data model for movies and movie databases. A movie is considered a 2-dimensional semi-algebraic figure that can change in time. We give a number of computability results concerning movies: it can be decided whether a frame of a movie is only a topologically transformation of another frame; a movie has a finite number of scenes and cuts and these can be effectively computed.Based on these computability results we define an SQL-like query language for movie databases. This query language supports most movie editing operations like cutting, pasting and selection of scenes.