Publisher's Synopsis
This book is a systematic introduction to systems and models useful for temporal knowledge representation in AI and computational linguistics. It offers a theoretically oriented treatment of a rapidly developing field, with a presentation of both standard results and new trends.;Intended for students and researchers at graduate and postgraduate levels, the book gives a unified presentation of subjects disseminated in the linguistic, AI, computational linguistics and logical literature. Both formal (logic, structures) and computational issues (systems, algorithms) are addressed.
