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COSIT
1997
Springer
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Using Hierarchical Spatial Data Structures for Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning
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...
Sabine Timpf, Andrew U. Frank
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Image-Schemata-Based Spatial Inferences: The Container-Surface Algebra
M. Andrea Rodríguez, Max J. Egenhofer
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Structuring Space with Image Schemata: Wayfinding in Airports as a Case Study
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...
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Partition and Conquer
Abstract. Although maps and partitions are ubiquitous in geographical information systems and spatial databases, there is only little work investigating their foundations. We give ...
Martin Erwig, Markus Schneider
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Spatial Representation for Pragmatic Navigation
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...
Susan L. Epstein
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Qualitative Representation of Change
Current geographic information systems (GISs) have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little support to those users ...
Kathleen Hornsby, Max J. Egenhofer
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Feature Accumulation and Route Structuring in Distance Estimations - An Interdisciplinary Approach
It is well-known that route distance estimates are influenced by the structure of the route. In particular, the number of features along the route (e.g. landmarks) and the structu...
Bettina Berendt, Petra Jansen-Osmann
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Cognitive Requirements on Making and Interpreting Maps
We present an approach to modeling human interpretation of (real) geographic maps. While in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) the limitations for describing geographic knowledge...
Thomas Barkowsky, Christian Freksa
COSIT
1997
Springer
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An Event-Based Approach to Spatial Information
Michael J. Almeida