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COSIT
2009
Springer
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The Abduction of Geographic Information Science: Transporting Spatial Reasoning to the Realm of Purpose and Design
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....
Helen Couclelis
AI
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Boolean connection algebras: A new approach to the Region-Connection Calculus
The Region-Connection Calculus (RCC) is a well established formal system for qualitative spatial reasoning. It provides an axiomatization of space which takes regions as primitive...
John G. Stell
KI
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Dependency Calculus: Reasoning in a General Point Relation Algebra
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...
Marco Ragni, Alexander Scivos
GEOINFORMATICA
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
Imprecision in Finite Resolution Spatial Data
An important component of spatial data quality is the imprecision resulting from the resolution at which data are represented. Current research on topics such as spatial data inte...
Michael F. Worboys
SPATIALCOGNITION
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Modelling Models of Robot Navigation Using Formal Spatial Ontology
Abstract. In this paper we apply a formal ontological framework in order to deconstruct two prominent approaches to navigation from cognitive robotics, the Spatial Semantic Hierarc...
John A. Bateman, Scott Farrar