“…For this reason, researchers have investigated in detail the representation and processing of spatio-temporal data, both in AI (Cohn & Hazarika, 2001;Gabelaia, Kontchakov, Kurucz, Wolter, & Zakharyaschev, 2005;Yaman, Nau, & Subrahmanian, 2004, 2005aKnapp, Merz, Wirsing, & Zappe, 2006) and databases (Agarwal, Arge, & Erickson, 2003;Pelanis, Saltenis, & Jensen, 2006). However, in many cases the location of objects is uncertain: such cases can be handled by using probabilities (Parker, Yaman, Nau, & Subrahmanian, 2007b;Tao, Cheng, Xiao, Ngai, Kao, & Prabhakar, 2005).…”