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Colloquium
| Category | Lecture |
| Date | Thursday, November 8, 2012 |
| Time | 11:00 am |
| Concludes | 12:00 pm |
| Location | Gould-Simpson 906 |
| Speaker | Paolo Terenziani |
| Title | Professor |
| Affiliation | University of Piedmont, Italy |
The Telic/Aetlic Distinction in Temporal Databases
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.
Biography
Paolo Terenziani received his Laurea degree in 1987 and his PhD in computer science in 1993 from Università di Torino, Italy. He is full professor in computer science with DiSIT, Institute of Computer Science, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Ales-sandria, Italy. His research interests include artificial intelligence (knowledge representation and temporal reasoning), databases and computer science in medicine. He has published more than 100 papers on these topics in refereed journals and conference proceedings.