בגנב ןוירוג ןב תטיסרבינוא
הסדנהה יעדמל הטלוקפה
עדימ תוכרעמ תסדנהל הקלחמה
Spring 2010
(Wednesday 14-17 P.M, Room 146, Bldg 90)
Instructor:
, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Information Systems Engineering email: yshahar@bgu.ac.il
tel: 08-646-1380 (internal: 61380)
Reception Hours: Monday 5-6PM
Teaching Assistant: Aviv Shemesh
Department of Information Systems Engineering email: avivsh@bgu.ac.il
Reception Hours: TBA
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תוניחב סרוקב ןיא
ו נתניי םינויצ
Grading : Exercises and miniproject (as individuals).
No miderm or final exams.
Papers and textbook chapters will be handed in class,
Or can be found at the course web site,
Or can be found in the ”Tadpisim” online library service,

1.
Introduction to temporal reasoning (A): Temporal reasoning in Philosophy and Linguistics
(includes: Introduction to logic)
Reference material: Background Lecture Notes; (optional) Introduction chapter from A. Galton
2.
Introduction to temporal reasoning (B): Temporal reasoning in Artificial Intelligence and general
Computer Science
Reference material: Background Lecture Notes; Allen, AIJ 1984; Allen and Hayes, IJCAI 1985;
Exercise 1
3.
Temporal maintenance and temporal databases
Reference Material: Shahar and Combi, WJM 1998; Zaniolo et al., 1997, Chap 5-6
Exercise 2; MiniProject
4.
Temporal reasoning in medical information systems (A)
Reference material: Background Lecture Notes; Shahar 1994, Chap 3
5. Temporal reasoning in medical information systems (B)
Reference material: Background Lecture Notes; Shahar 1994, Chap 3
Exercise 3
6. Frames, ontologies, and description logics
Reference material: Background Lecture Notes; Russel and Norvig 1995, 316-332
7. Knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition, and the knowledge level
Reference material: Newall, AIJ 1982; Noy, Fergerson, and Musen 2000
Exercise 4
8 The temporal abstraction task; the RESUME system
Reference material: Shahar and Musen, AIM, 1996; Shahar, AIJ, 1997
9 Temporal mediators: Integration of temporal reasoning and temporal maintenance; The Tzolkin system
Reference material: Nguyen et al., JIIS, 1999
10 Visualization and exploration of time-oriented data; the KNAVE system
Reference material: Shahar and Cheng, Comp. Intell., 1999; Cousins and Kahn, AIM 1991
Exercise 5
11 Time-oriented therapy planning; EON and other architectures
Reference material: Musen et al., JAMIA, 1996
12 Quality assessment of time-oriented plan execution; the Asgaard, DeGeL, and related projects
Reference material: Shahar et al., AIM, 1998; JBI, 2004
Exercise 6