{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"On the Problems of Time, Retrieval of Temporal Relations, Causality, and Co-Existence","authors":[{"name":"Nicholas V. Findler","slug":"nicholas-v-findler","given":"Nicholas V.","family":"Findler","affiliation":""},{"name":"David Chen","slug":"david-chen","given":"David","family":"Chen","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Intelliqent question-an!'!•.-lerino nroaraMS no !'lOre than r.etrie.,e •ra···· nata: they !'lake ~e~uctive in~erences in or~er to return all vAli~ res~nns~c;. The., renort looical inconsistencies, oossihly at the nata inout n~Ase. C:i~ilarl•,, !'lOre in~ormation i!'! reC'luestecl from the uc;eT i ~ a question aske~ nrow•c; to he lll\"hil\"''uouc:. ~ question-answerinl\"'' SVStem 0~ t~P. above tyr>P hilS heP.~ n~Sil\"''ner'! llnn imolementen. 'Fiesir'!e!'! retTievinn exnlicit ann imolicit te..,noral r.elllti. o~c;, t~e sv\"ltem ~isco•1er!'! potentially causal relAtionc:;hin!'! N~ich also Sllti . s~v r'!i~~er~nt ti..,e restrictions. Que\"ltions concernino a aeneralizecl conceot of co-existence can also he answere~. It is hooerl that oroarams of a si~i. lar nature '\"ill heco!\"~ of l'IUCh nraamatic U!'!e to researc,ers in ohysics, c~emistry, bioloqv, ann so on, in e••aluatinl\"'' comnlex, interrelated exnerimental nata. C:everal arlditional anolications ~or t~is tvoe o~ oroarams are mentionen, ranaino from nrohlems in criminoloqy to air traffic control. The Associative 'ie!'lorv, Paralle 1 Process inn Lanouaqe, ,&Jfi>'DJ,- II, '\"\"'q ~ouncl rat~er sati!'l ~actory ~or the orniect. It is finally sunaestecl that the c;vc;te!\" heino describer'! coulr'! serve as a comoonent to a comnlex coanitive l\"ec~anis~.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/56","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/0056.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/56.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/bibtex/56","volume":{"slug":"1971","title":"Proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1971","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1971/","year":1971,"location":"London, UK","dates":"","editors":"D.C. Cooper","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":56,"pages":{"first":531,"last":544},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}