This chapter provides an overview of possibility theory, emphasizing its historical roots and
its recent developments. Possibility theory lies at the crossroads between fuzzy sets …

OBJECTIVE: The main aim of this paper is to propose and discuss promising directions of
research in the field of temporal representation and reasoning in medicine, taking into …

Background and objective We live our lives by the calendar and the clock, but time is also an
abstraction, even an illusion. The sense of time can be both domain-specific and complex …

Approximate reasoning has been a very important source of motivations for the development
of fuzzy sets and possibility theory. It has also been at the origin of some of the most popular …

Traditional approaches to temporal reasoning assume that time periods and time spans of
events can be accurately represented as intervals. Real-world time periods and events, on …

Time intervals like" tonight", which are usually not very precise, can be modeled as fuzzy
sets. But this causes the problem that the relations between points and intervals and …

The explicit representation and reasoning about time is an important problem in many areas
of artificial intelligence. Over the last 10–15 years, it has been attracting the attention of …

The aim of this work is to integrate the ideas of flexibility and uncertainty into Allen's interval-
based temporal framework, defining a new formalism, called IAfuz, which extends classical …

Intelligent systems require a systematic way to represent and handle temporal information
containing uncertainty. In particular, a logical framework is needed that can represent …

Humans often use expressions with vague terms which play a fundamental role for effective
communication. These expressions are successfully modeled with fuzzy technology, but …