Where some have attempted to apply cognitive methods to the study of geography, the present paper is designed to serve as a starting point for applying methods of geographic ontolo...
Previous recent research on human wayfinding has focused primarily on mental representations rather than processes of wayfinding. This paper presents a formal model of some aspect...
We extend the theory about terminological default reasoning by using a logical base language that can represent spatioterminological phenomena. Based on this description logic lang...
In qualitative spatial reasoning, the last ten years have brought a lot of results on theories of spatial properties and relations taking regions of space as primitive entities. In...
Spatial information is information bound to spatial entities such as regions. It is based on the spatial structure alone (the valley includes the field) or connects thematic predic...
Cur rent ont ologi es' upp er-le vel tax onomi c str uctur e is oft en qui te com plica ted and hard to und ersta nd. In thi s pap er I sho w how the the oret ical too ls of ...
Abstract. This paper describes some recent cognitively-based and computationally-based research on representing and reasoning about shapes. The cognitive studies are based on proto...
The project CommonGIS1 aims at building a system allowing users to view and analyze geographically referenced thematic data. The system is oriented to the general public, i.e. peop...