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TimeGraph II (TG-II): Reasoning about Qualitative Temporal Information

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TimeGraph II (TG-II) handles the set of the relations of the Point Algebra and of the Pointizable Interval Algebra (also called Simple Interval Algebra by P. van Beek). Temporal relations are represented through a "timegraph", a graph partitioned into a collection of "time chains" which are automatically structured for efficiency. The system is scalable, in the sense that the storage tends to remain linear in the number of relations asserted. Efficient query handling is achieved through a time point numbering scheme and a "metagraph" data structure.
Origin:   

   cs.rochester.edu:/pub/knowledge-tools/
   as the files tg-ii.readme and tg-ii-1.tar.gz

Version: 1.0 (30-MAR-94) Requires: Common Lisp Ports: Tested under Allegro CL 4.2 and Lucid CL 4.0.0. Copying: Copyright (C) 1994 by Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) (38050 Povo, Trento Italy) and the Trustees of the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY 14627, USA). All rights reserved. GNU GPL v2. Use, copying, and distribution permitted, provided you report *ALL* bugs, bug fixes, and ports to bug-tg2-request@cs.rochester.edu and let the authors know that you've retrieved a copy of TimeGraph II by anonymous ftp, by sending them a message to the same address. (See README and COPYRIGHT.TEXT for details.) CD-ROM: Prime Time Freeware for AI, Issue 1-1 Bug Reports: bug-tg2@cs.rochester.edu Mailing List: To be put on the bug-tg2@cs.rochester.edu mailing list, send your request to bug-tg2-request@cs.rochester.edu. Author(s): Alfonso Gerevini Lenhart Schubert Keywords: Algebra, Authors!Gerevini, Authors!Schubert, Interval Algebra, Knowledge Representation, Lisp!Code, Point Algebra, Pointizable Interval, Reasoning!Temporal Reasoning, Simple Interval Algebra, TG-II, Temporal Reasoning, Temporal Relations, TimeGraph-II References: For a description of the theory underlying the system see [1] Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, "Efficient Temporal Reasoning through Timegraphs", in Proceedings of IJCAI-93. [2] Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, "Temporal Reasoning in TimeGraph I-II", SIGART Bulletin 4(3), July 1993. [3] Alfonso Gerevini and Lenhart Schubert, "Efficient Algorithms for Qualitative Reasoning about Time", Artificial Intelligece, to appear. Also available as IRST Technical Report 9307-44, IRST 38050 Povo, TN Italy; or Tech. report 496, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, Rochester 14627 NY, USA.
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