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FOIS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
An Ontology for Grounding Vague Geographic Terms
Many geographic terms, such as "river" and "lake", are vague, with no clear boundaries of application. In particular, the spatial extent of such features is oft...
Brandon Bennett, David Mallenby, Allan Third
IJAR
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Fuzzy region connection calculus: Representing vague topological information
Qualitative spatial information plays a key role in many applications. While it is well-recognized that all but a few of these applications deal with spatial information that is a...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Chris Cornelis...
ADBIS
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Vague Spatial Data Types, Set Operations, and Predicates
Many geographical applications deal with spatial objects that cannot be adequately described by determinate, crisp concepts because of their intrinsically indeterminate and vague n...
Alejandro Pauly, Markus Schneider
IWFM
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Motivation for a New Semantics for Vagueness
Vagueness is the phenomenon that natural language predicates have borderline regions of applicability and that the boundaries of the borderline region are not determinable. A theo...
Mark Changizi
IPMU
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Plateau Regions: An Implementation Concept for Fuzzy Regions in Spatial Databases and GIS
Abstract. Many geographical applications need to model spatial phenomena with vague or indeterminate boundaries and interiors. A popular paradigm adopted by the GIS community for t...
Virupaksha Kanjilal, Hechen Liu, Markus Schneider