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Temporal Modeling and Temporal Reasoning

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In this chapter, the reader is guided through the basic notions of time and temporal information and is presented with some important, general approaches to represent and reason about temporal information. Simple medical examples are used to help the reader to understand the advantages and limitations of the different approaches.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Strada le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy

    Prof. Dr. Carlo Combi

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Kallipoleos Street 75, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Prof. Dr. Elpida Keravnou-Papailiou

  3. Medical Informatics Research Center Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University, 84105, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Prof. Dr. Yuval Shahar

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Combi, C., Keravnou-Papailiou, E., Shahar, Y. (2010). Temporal Modeling and Temporal Reasoning. In: Temporal Information Systems in Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6543-1_2

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