This book is intended as an introduction to a versatile model for temporal data. It exhibits an original lattice structure on the space of chronicles and proposes new counting approach for multiple occurrences of chronicle occurrences. This book also proposes a new approach for frequent temporal pattern mining using pattern structures.  This book was initiated by the work of Ch. Dousson in the 1990’s.  At that time, the prominent format was Temporal Constraint Networks for which the article by Richter, Meiri and Pearl is seminal.

Chronicles do not conflict with temporal...