Bestfitting with time and priority

The simplified bestfitting becomes even simpler in the presence of time and priority. We no longer need deftime nor validtime dimensions. We simply need to use the time dimension. Then definitions might have the form

x | [time:40..50, priority:2] = E

There is nothing special about the time dimension as far as bestfitting is concerned. For the priority dimension, this is different, as it is an ordered dimension. We need to adapt the refinement order ⊂ on equations so that the priority is considered first. We can consider an equation q as a quadruple (xq, Pq, Kq, Eq), where Pq is the priority of q. Then

q ⊂ q' if xq = xq' and Pq < Pq' or Kq ⊃ Kq'

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