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This family comprises a number of a very simple strategies. Their
common characteristic is that they divide a certain set of
chronons - to which we refer as the
span - into m disjoint segments , each
of which containing the same number of chronons. The differentiating
element is therefore the set of chronons that is used as the span; we
discuss the following three and show how the corresponding partitions
are computed by using IP-tables:
- the joint lifespan
(see section 9.1.1),
- the joint range
(see section 9.1.2),
- the startpoints' span (see section 9.1.3).
A comparison between the three types of spans is shown in
figure 9.1 for some scenario of intervals; this
comparison should make the differences obvious.
Figure:
Comparison of the notions of a lifespan, a range and a startpoint
span.
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Thomas Zurek