aDepartment of Computer and Information Science, Linköpings Universitet, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
bDepartment of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK
Abstract:
We study the computational complexity of the qualitative algebra which is a temporal constraint formalism that combines the point algebra, the point-interval algebra and Allen's interval algebra. We identify all tractable fragments and show that every other fragment is NP-complete.