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The Telic/Atelic Distinction in Temporal Databases

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling (ER 2012)

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Prior research in philosophy, linguistics, artificial intelligence and other areas suggests the need to differentiate between temporal facts with goal-related semantics (i.e., telic) from those that are intrinsically devoid of culmination (i.e., atelic). We investigate the impact of the telic/atelic distinction on temporal databases, considering data and query semantics, query languages, and conceptual models.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, DISIT, Univ. Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Viale Teresa Michel 11, Alessandria, Italy

    Paolo Terenziani

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Comelico, 39, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Silvana Castano

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Ioannina, 45110, Ioannina, Hellas, Greece

    Panos Vassiliadis

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 2366 Main Mall-Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, BC, Canada

    Laks V. Lakshmanan

  4. School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 1,13 Computer Drive, 117417, Singapore

    Mong Li Lee

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Terenziani, P. (2012). The Telic/Atelic Distinction in Temporal Databases. In: Castano, S., Vassiliadis, P., Lakshmanan, L.V., Lee, M.L. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33999-8_7

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