A logical approach to represent and reason about calendars

C. Combi1, M. Franceschet2, A. Peron3
1Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Italy
2Department of Sciences, University G. d''Annunzio of Pescara, Italy
3Department of Physical Sciences, Universita di Napoli Federico II, Italy

Tóm tắt

We propose a logical approach to represent and reason about different time granularities. We identify a time granularity as a discrete infinite sequence of time points properly labelled with proposition symbols marking the starting and ending points of the corresponding granules, and we intensively model sets of granularities with linear time logic formulas. Some real-world granularities are provided to motivate and exemplify our approach. The proposed framework permits to algorithmically solve the consistency, the equivalence, and the classification problems in a uniform way, by reducing them to the validity problem for the considered linear time logic.

Từ khóa

#Calendars #Computer science #Logic #Formal specifications #Databases #Data mining #Problem-solving #Natural languages #Qualifications #Testing

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