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SPATIALCOGNITION
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Inference and Visualization of Spatial Relations
We present an approach to spatial inference which is based on the procedural semantics of spatial relations. In contrast to qualitative reasoning, we do not use discrete symbolic m...
Sylvia Wiebrock, Lars Wittenburg, Ute Schmid, Frit...
W2GIS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Towards the Geo-spatial Querying of the Semantic Web with ONTOAST
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...
Alina Dia Miron, Jérôme Gensel, Marl&...
COSIT
2003
Springer
129views GIS» more  COSIT 2003»
14 years 25 days ago
Linearized Terrain: Languages for Silhouette Representations
The scope of this paper is a qualitative description of terrain features that can be characterized using the silhouette of a terrain. The silhouette is a profile of a landform seen...
Lars Kulik, Max J. Egenhofer
SSD
2007
Springer
139views Database» more  SSD 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Local Topological Relationships for Complex Regions
Topological relationships between spatial objects are important for querying, reasoning, and indexing of data within spatial databases. These relationships are qualitative and resp...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...
NGC
2006
Springer
135views Communications» more  NGC 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Seeing Things: Inventive Reasoning with Geometric Analogies and Topographic Maps
This paper examines two seemingly unrelated qualitative spatial reasoning domains; geometric proportional analogies and topographic (landcover) maps. We present a Structure Matchin...
Diarmuid P. O'Donoghue, Amy J. Bohan, Mark T. Kean...