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Finding a Single, All, or the Most Probable Solution to a Finite or Non-finite Interval Algebra Network

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We present a unified approach for finding a single, all, or the most probable solution to an Interval Algebra network. The network may contain finite, non-finite, or a mixture of both types of temporal intervals.

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Trudel, A. (2010). Finding a Single, All, or the Most Probable Solution to a Finite or Non-finite Interval Algebra Network. In: Farzindar, A., Kešelj, V. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13059-5_12

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