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KI
2002
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Spatial Strategies in Human-Robot Communication
This paper deals with various kinds of mental representations available for linguistic instruction in spatial humanrobot interaction. After a survey of the literature on spatial r...
Thora Tenbrink, Kerstin Fischer, Reinhard Moratz
KI
2002
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Formal Properties of Constraint Calculi for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
In the previous two decades, a number of qualitative constraint calculi have been developed, which are used to represent and reason about spatial configurations. A common property...
Bernhard Nebel, Alexander Scivos
COR
1999
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Economics of location: A selective survey
We present a selective survey of the main results obtained in spatial economic theory. Our focus is on "rm location. We start with the simplest location problem and proceed t...
Maureen Kilkenny, Jacques-François Thisse
GIS
1998
ACM
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Natural-Language Spatial Relations Between Linear and Areal Objects: The Topology and Metric of English-Language Terms
Spatial relations are the basis for many selections users perform when they query geographic information systems (GISs). Although such query languages use natural-language-like te...
A. Rashid B. M. Shariff, Max J. Egenhofer, David M...
GEOINFORMATICA
1998
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Symbolic Intersect Detection: A Method for Improving Spatial Intersect Joins
Due to the increasing popularity of spatial databases, researchers have focused their efforts on improving the query processing performance of the most expensive spatial database ...
Yun-Wu Huang, Matthew C. Jones, Elke A. Rundenstei...
GIS
2002
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Opening the black box: interactive hierarchical clustering for multivariate spatial patterns
Clustering is one of the most important tasks for geographic knowledge discovery. However, existing clustering methods have two severe drawbacks for this purpose. First, spatial c...
Diansheng Guo, Donna Peuquet, Mark Gahegan
JGS
2000
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Spatial analysis in epidemiology: Nascent science or a failure of GIS?
This paper summarizes contributions of GIS in epidemiology, and identi
Geoffrey M. Jacquez
GIS
2000
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Modeling part-whole relationships for spatial data
Spatialapplications must managepartwhole (PW) relationships between spatial objects, for example, the division of an administrative region into zones based on land use. Support fo...
Rosanne Price, Nectaria Tryfona, Christian S. Jens...
BC
2000
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Spatial cognition and neuro-mimetic navigation: a model of hippocampal place cell activity
Abstract. A computational model of hippocampal activity during spatial cognition and navigation tasks is presented. The spatial representation in our model of the rat hippocampus i...
Angelo Arleo, Wulfram Gerstner
COGSCI
2004
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Mapping relational structure in spatial reasoning
Three experiments investigated whether the similarity of relational structures influences the interpretation of spatial representations. Adults were shown diagrams of hand gesture...
Merideth Gattis