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GIS
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Spatio-temporal evolution: querying patterns of change in databases
This paper contributes a general approach to characterizing patterns of change in a spatio-temporal database. While there is a particular interest in modelling and querying how sp...
Nassima Djafri, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Norman W. ...
AI
2004
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
On the revision of preferences and rational inference processes
Orderings and inference relations can be successfully used to model the behavior of a rational agent. This behavior is indeed represented either by a set of ordered pairs that ref...
Michael Freund
ENC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
SKIMA: Semantic Knowledge and Information Management
This paper describes SKIMA, a mediation system that gives transparent access to heterogeneous and distributed sources considering their semantics and the semantics of application ...
Héctor Pérez-Urbina, Gennaro Bruno, ...
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Topological Inference of Teleology: Deriving Function from Structure via Evidential Reasoning
Reasoning about the physical world is a central human cognitive activity. One aspect of such reasoning is the inference of function from the structure of the artifacts one encount...
John O. Everett
AIR
2005
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Relation Algebras and their Application in Temporal and Spatial Reasoning
Qualitative temporal and spatial reasoning is in many cases based on binary relations such as before, after, starts, contains, contact, part of, and others derived from these by r...
Ivo Düntsch