@techreport{TR-IC-96-16,
  number = {IC-96-16},
  author = {Wainer, Jacques and Rezende, Alexandre M.},
  title = {A Temporal Extension to the Parsimonious Covering Theory},
  month = {November},
  year = {1996}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 19 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
      This paper presents a temporal extension to the parsimonious
      covering theory (PCT), so instead of associating to each
      disorder a set of manifestation as it is done in PCT, one
      associates to each disorder a temporal graph that contains
      information about duration and elapsed time between the
      beginning of the manifestations. The definitions of solutions
      for temporal diagnostic problems is presented as well as
      algorithms that compute this solution. We also include some
      limited form of probabilistic information into the model in
      order to study how categorical rejection, the elimination of
      explanations that contain a disease for which a necessary
      manifestation is not present, interacts with temporal
      information.  An application in a medical domain is presented
      and discussed.
  }
}