We address the problem of merging qualitative constraint networks (QCNs) representing agents local preferences or beliefs on the relative position of spatial or temporal entities. ...
One of the challenges raised by the construction of the semantic Web lies in the analysis and management of complex relationships (thematic, spatial and temporal) connecting severa...
Allen’s interval calculus is one of the most prominent formalisms in the domain of qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning. Applications of this calculus, however, are restric...
The point algebra is a fundamental formal calculus for spatial and temporal reasoning. We present a new generalization that meets all requirements to describe dependencies on netw...
Abstract. This paper describes methods of extracting region boundaries from the frames of an image sequence by combining information from spatial or temporal cooccurrence matrices ...