Integrating multiple calendars using τZAMAN

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 267-308

  Urgun, Bedirhan ^a   Dyreson, Curtis E ^a   Snodgrass, Richard T ^b   Miller, Jessica K ^c   Kline, Nick ^d   Soo, Michael D ^e   Jensen, Christian S ^f  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d MICROSOFT   (United States)

^e AMAZON   (United States)

^f AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Calendric systems; Datetime representation; Multiple calendars; Temporal data types; Time

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TIMING DEVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

CALENDRIC SYSTEMS; DATETIME REPRESENTATION; MULTIPLE CALENDARS; TEMPORAL DATA TYPES; TIME;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33947131259     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.765     Document Type: Article

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