Querying historical data over multiple time-lines

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Abstract

In a temporal database, time-varying relations may be defined over multiple time-lines with varying rates of sampling and/or progress, for instance, multiple time series. There is a need to represent such data in a temporal model and provide query languages. In this paper, we propose a clocked temporal relational algebra, called R, which supports temporal relations based on multiple time-lines. In the underlying model, temporal relations (historical data) are defined over clocks which are subsequences of an assumed global time-line. The algebra is uniform, it is a consistent extension of the relational algebra, and it includes a number of temporal operators to combine data based on different time-lines, as well as extensions of the operators of the relational algebra. The semantics of an operation of R depends on the clocks of the relations involved in the operation as well as the relations. We outline a formal interpretation of expressions of R, which also represent clocked relations, and sketch a naïve expression evaluation method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)165-191
Number of pages27
JournalMathematics in Computer Science
Volume2
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2008

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