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COSIT
1993
Springer
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Development of a Cartographic Language
J. Raul Ramirez
COSIT
1993
Springer
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Scale and Multiple Psychologies of Space
The importance of scale to the psychology of space (perception, thinking, memory, behavior) is discussed. It is maintained that scale has an important influence on how humans treat...
Daniel R. Montello
CISM
1993
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The Weak Instance Model
The weak instance model is a framework to consider the relations in a database as a whole, regardless of the way attributes are grouped in the individual relations. Queries and upd...
Paolo Atzeni, Riccardo Torlone
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Using Hierarchical Spatial Data Structures for Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning
This paper gives a definition of Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning, which computes increasingly better results in a hierarchical fashion and stops the computation when a result is ac...
Sabine Timpf, Andrew U. Frank
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Image-Schemata-Based Spatial Inferences: The Container-Surface Algebra
M. Andrea Rodríguez, Max J. Egenhofer
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Structuring Space with Image Schemata: Wayfinding in Airports as a Case Study
Wayfinding is a basic activity people do throughout their entire lives as they navigate from one place to another. In order to create different spaces in such a way that they facil...
Martin Raubal, Max J. Egenhofer, Dieter Pfoser, Ne...
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Partition and Conquer
Abstract. Although maps and partitions are ubiquitous in geographical information systems and spatial databases, there is only little work investigating their foundations. We give ...
Martin Erwig, Markus Schneider
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Spatial Representation for Pragmatic Navigation
As described here, pragmatic navigation attempts to harness simple facts about a two-dimensional environment to facilitate travel through it without an explicit map. It relies upo...
Susan L. Epstein
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Qualitative Representation of Change
Current geographic information systems (GISs) have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little support to those users ...
Kathleen Hornsby, Max J. Egenhofer