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COSIT
2007
Springer
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Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations
Consistent and flawless communication between humans and machines is the precondition for a computer to process instructions correctly. While machines use well-defined languages an...
Angela Schwering
COSIT
2007
Springer
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A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions
Abstract. Landmarks are crucial for human wayfinding. Their integration in wayfinding assistance systems is essential for generating cognitively ergonomic route directions. I prese...
Kai-Florian Richter
COSIT
2007
Springer
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Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the 'Drop-Off' Orientation Task
Previous work is reviewed and an experiment described to examine the spatial and strategic cognitive factors impacting on human orientation in the `drop-off' static orientatio...
David Peebles, Clare Davies, Rodrigo Mora
COSIT
2007
Springer
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From Top-Level to Domain Ontologies: Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study
Abstract. We present a methodology of how to use a top-level ontology to create a domain ontology from existing scientific texts by (1) identifying informal definitions of domain-s...
Thomas Bittner
AGILE
2007
Springer
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The gazetteer content model issue: Could Spatial Data Infrastructures provide it?
Francisco J. López-Pellicer, F. Javier Zara...
IGIS
1994
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Optimization Issues in R-tree Construction (Extended Abstract)
Yannis Theodoridis, Timos K. Sellis
IGIS
1994
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Surface Modelling with Guaranteed Consistency - An Object-Based Approach
There have been many interpolation methods developed over the years, each with their own problems. One of the biggest limitations in many applications is the non-correspondence of...
Christopher M. Gold, Thomas Roos
IGIS
1994
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Approximations for a Multi-Step Processing of Spatial Joins
The basic concept for processing spatial joins consists of two steps: First, the spatial join is performed on the minimum bounding rectangles of the objects by using a spatial acce...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel
IGIS
1994
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Optimizing Spatial Data Structures For Static Data
During the last decade various spatial data structures have been designed and compared against each other, all of them re ecting a dynamic situation with ongoing object insertion a...
Lukas Bachmann, Bernd-Uwe Pagel, Hans-Werner Six
COSIT
1993
Springer
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Cognitive Maps, Cognitive Collages, and Spatial Mental Models
Although cognitive map is a popular metaphor for people's mental representations of environments, as it is typically conceived, it is often too restrictive. Two other metaphor...
Barbara Tversky