Representing temporal relationships between events and their effects.

Ma, Jixin; Knight, Brian; Peng, Taoxin

Abstract

Temporal relationships between events and their effects
are complex. As the ejjects of a given event, a
proposition may change its truth value immediately after
the occurrence of the event and remain true until some
other events occur, while another proposition m y only
become trueJalse from some time after the causal event
has occurred. Expressing delayed @ects of events has been
a problematic question in most existing theories of action
and change. This paper presents a new formalism for
representing general temporal causal relationships
between events and their effects. It allows expressions of
both immediate and delayed effects of events, and
.supports common-sense assertions such as "effects
cannot precede their causes".

Citation

Ma, J., Knight, B., & Peng, T. (1997, May). Representing temporal relationships between events and their effects. Presented at 4th Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning

• Conference Name: 4th Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning
• Start Date: May 10, 1997
• End Date: May 11, 1997
• Publication Date: 1997
• Deposit Date: Jul 15, 2010
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 148-152
• Book Title: Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning
• ISBN: 0-8186-7937-9
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TIME.1997.600796
• Keywords: temporal relationships; truth value; action and change; cause and effects
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3244