The Telic/Atelic Distinction in Temporal Databases

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Authors: Paolo Terenziani

Tags: 2012, conceptual modeling

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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