Representation of temporal knowledge and reasoning is essential in wide range of disciplines like computer science, philosophy, psychology and linguistics. Events in real world can be represented as time intervals. Events can be modeled using the temporal relations that exist between the intervals. Temporal knowledge representation has to be expressive, unambiguous and comprehensive for linear ordering of events. Linear ordering plays a vital role in association rule mining, planning, question answering system, decision support system and text summarization. In this book, an exhaustive survey...