The discovery and construction of inherent regions in large spatial datasets is an important task for many research domains such as climate zoning, eco-region analysis, public heal...
Among the formalisms for qualitative spatial reasoning, the Region Connection Calculus and its variant, the constraint algebra RCC8, have received particular attention recently. A...
With the increasing use of geographical data in real-world applications, Geographic Information Systems (GISs) have recently emerged as a fruitful area for research. Nowadays, a G...
Shu-Ching Chen, Xinran Wang, Naphtali Rishe, Mark ...
In this article, an approach to semantic image analysis is presented. Under the proposed approach, ontologiesareusedtocapturegeneral,spatial,andcontextualknowledgeofadomain,andage...
Language is sensitive to both semantic and pragmatic effects. To capture both effects, we model language use as a cooperative game between two players: a speaker, who generates an...