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Traditionally, an interval is used to describe incomplete knowledge about a moment of time when an event occured. In principle, more general sets are sometimes needed to describe our knowledge. In this paper, we show that if we are only interested in the ordering of events, then intervals are sufficient. This result provides one more justification for the use of the intervals.
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Как нравило, для представленяя нецолното энания о моменте времени, в который проиэошло некоторое событие, иснольэуется интервал. В припцице, иногда для представления энаний требуются более общие биды множеств. В работе покаэано, что для решения эадачи упорядочивания событий достаточно интервалов. Таким обраэом, дается еще одно обоснование испольэования интервалов.
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Provetti, A. Ordering events: Intervals are sufficient, more general sets are usually not necessary. Reliable Comput 2, 321–327 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02391703
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