TPS: Incorporating temporal reasoning into a production system

Marcus A. Maloof

Reasoning about events occurring in time is a strong, viable research area in Artificial Intelligence. In spite of numerous successful temporal reasoning theories and systems, few expert system shells exist with temporal reasoning capabilities. Those that do are real-time expert system shells; however, the ontological commitments of these systems limit them to reasoning about past, continuous events. Temporal Production System (TPS) is a production system augmented with an interval-based temporal knowledge representation and maintenance routines that provides a unique tool for temporal domain modeling.

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Maloof, M.A. (1992). TPS: Incorporating temporal reasoning into a production system. Master's Thesis, University of Georgia, Athens.

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  title = "{TPS}: Incorporating temporal reasoning into a production system",
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