COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
People intuitively understand that function and purpose are critical parts of what human-configured entities are about, but these notions have proved difficult to capture formally....
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of merging qualitative constraint networks (QCNs) defined on different qualitative formalisms. Our model is restricted to formalisms wher...
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2009
Springer
Named urban neighborhoods (localities) are often examples of vague place extents. These are compared with current knowledge of vagueness in concepts and categories within semantic ...
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Spatial information requires models which allow us to answer ‘maybe’ to questions asking whether a location lies within a region. At the same time, models must account for data...
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Human path planning relies on several more aspects than only geometric distance between two locations. These additional aspects mostly relate to the complexity of the traveled path...
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Formal models of geographic space should support reasoning about its static and dynamic properties, its objects, their behaviors, and the relationships between them. Image schemas,...
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. I review theories and research on the cognitive processing of environmental distance information by humans, particularly that acquired via direct experience in the enviro...
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Movement patterns of individual entities at the geographic scale are becoming a prominent research focus in spatial sciences. One pertinent question is how cognitive and formal cha...
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract.Abstract.Abstract. This paper proposes an automated approach for describing how geospatial objects evolve. We consider geospatial objects whose boundaries and properties c...
COSIT
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Relation models have treated multi-holed regions relations either the same as hole-free regions relations, loosing this way the peculiarities of the holed topology, or with methods...