The importance of scale to the psychology of space (perception, thinking, memory, behavior) is discussed. It is maintained that scale has an important influence on how humans treat...
The weak instance model is a framework to consider the relations in a database as a whole, regardless of the way attributes are grouped in the individual relations. Queries and upd...
This paper gives a definition of Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning, which computes increasingly better results in a hierarchical fashion and stops the computation when a result is ac...
Wayfinding is a basic activity people do throughout their entire lives as they navigate from one place to another. In order to create different spaces in such a way that they facil...
Martin Raubal, Max J. Egenhofer, Dieter Pfoser, Ne...
Abstract. Although maps and partitions are ubiquitous in geographical information systems and spatial databases, there is only little work investigating their foundations. We give ...
As described here, pragmatic navigation attempts to harness simple facts about a two-dimensional environment to facilitate travel through it without an explicit map. It relies upo...
Current geographic information systems (GISs) have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little support to those users ...