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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-018-10-1343</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23549</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>I.2 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>A General Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Model Based on Intervals</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Martínez-Martín</surname>
            <given-names>Ester</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">emartine@icc.uji.es</email>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Escrig</surname>
            <given-names>M. Teresa</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Pobil</surname>
            <given-names>Angel P. del</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Jaume-I University, Castellón, Spain</addr-line>
        <institution>Jaume-I University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Castellón</addr-line>
        <country>Spain</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Ester Martínez-Martín (<email xlink:type="simple">emartine@icc.uji.es</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2012</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>18</volume>
      <issue>10</issue>
      <fpage>1343</fpage>
      <lpage>1378</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/F8A3C383-AB81-5896-AB3A-B39CB54384BF">F8A3C383-AB81-5896-AB3A-B39CB54384BF</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505603">5505603</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>14</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2011</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2012</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Ester Martínez-Martín, M. Teresa Escrig, Angel P. del Pobil</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Many real-world problems involve qualitative reasoning about space and/or time. Actually, it is an adequate tool for dealing with situations in which information is not sufficiently precise. However, despite its numerous applications, it is difficult for people from outside the field to incorporate the required reasoning techniques into their methods. In this paper, we present a general, easy-to-use framework that integrates and solves the reasoning process of all qualitative models based on intervals. This framework has been divided into: (1) a representation magnitude and (2) the resolution of the reasoning process. Mainly, the developed method for solving the reasoning process is based on the definition of two algorithms: the qualitative sum and the qualitative difference. In addition, here, different instances of the model as well as some practical applications of them are presented.</p>
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