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...
Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical basis for terminological reasoning about objects and their qualitative spatial relationships. In contrast to existing work, which mainly...
— Recently, cognitive psychologists and others have turned their attention to the formerly neglected study of shadows, and the information they purvey. These studies show that th...
We present here a theory of motion from a topological point of view, in a symbolic perspective. Taking space-time histories of objects as primitive entities, we introduce temporal...
The OASIS (Ontologically Augmented Spatial Information System) project explores terminology systems for thematic and spatial access in digital library applications. A prototype im...
Harith Alani, Christopher B. Jones, Douglas Tudhop...