HMAP - A temporal data model managing intervals with different granularities and indeterminacy from natural language sentences

VLDB Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 294-311

  Combi, Carlo ^a   Pozzi, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Temporal databases; Three valued logic; Time granularity; Time indeterminacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035343822     PISSN: 10668888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007780100033     Document Type: Article

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