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AAAI
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Reasoning with Cardinal Directions: An Efficient Algorithm
Direction relations between extended spatial objects are important commonsense knowledge. Recently, Goyal and Egenhofer proposed a formal model, called Cardinal Direction Calculus...
Xiaotong Zhang, Weiming Liu, Sanjiang Li, Mingshen...
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On the consistency of cardinal direction constraints
We present a formal model for qualitative spatial reasoning with cardinal directions utilizing a co-ordinate system. Then, we study the problem of checking the consistency of a se...
Spiros Skiadopoulos, Manolis Koubarakis
EDBT
2004
ACM
142views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
14 years 4 months ago
Computing and Handling Cardinal Direction Information
Qualitative spatial reasoning forms an important part of the commonsense reasoning required for building intelligent Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Previous research has c...
Spiros Skiadopoulos, Christos Giannoukos, Panos Va...
SSD
2001
Springer
103views Database» more  SSD 2001»
14 years 3 months ago
Similarity of Cardinal Directions
Like people who casually assess similarity between spatial scenes in their routine activities, users of pictorial databases are often interested in retrieving scenes that are simil...
Roop K. Goyal, Max J. Egenhofer
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
142views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions
Cardinality estimation during query optimization relies on simplifying assumptions that usually do not hold in practice. To diminish the impact of inaccurate estimates during opti...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri