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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Evaluating Exceptions on Time Slices
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Romans Kasperovics
  • Michael Hanspeter Böhlen
  • Johann Gamper
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Page Range 251 - 264
Event Title ER 2009: 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Event Type conference
Event Location Gramado, Brazil
Event Start Date November 9 - 2009
Event End Date November 12 - 2009
Series Name Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Number 5829/2009
Publisher Springer
Abstract Text Public transport schedules contain temporal data with many regular patterns that can be represented compactly. Exceptions come as modifications of the initial schedule and break the regular patterns increasing the size of the representation. A typical strategy to preserve the compactness of schedules is to keep exceptions separately. This, however, complicates the automated processing of schedules and imposes a more complex model on applications. In this paper we evaluate exceptions by incorporating them into the patterns that define schedules. We employ sets of time slices, termed multislices, as a representation formalism for schedules and exceptions. The difference of multislices corresponds to the evaluation of exceptions and produces an updated schedule in terms of a multislice. We propose a relational model for multislices, provide an algorithm for efficient evaluating the difference of multislices, and show analytically and experimentally that the evaluation of exceptions is a feasible strategy for realistic schedules.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_20
Other Identification Number merlin-id:2295
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