Time Granularities in Databases, Data Mining, and Temporal Reasoning
Calendar units, such as months and days, clock units, such as hours and seconds, and specialized units, such as business days and academic years, play a major role in a wide range of information system applications. System support for reasoning about these units, called granularities in this book, i...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2000, 2000
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Granularity Systems
- 3. Design of Temporal Databases with Multiple Granularities
- 4. Querying Temporal Databases with Multiple Views
- 5. Constraint Reasoning
- 6. An Application to Knowledge Discovery
- 7. Open Issues and Research Directions
- 8. Appendix: Proofs