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COSIT
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Scale-Dependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing
Abstract. The paper proposes a novel approach for a scale-dependent geometric simplification of 3D building models that are an integral part of virtual cities. In contrast to real-...
Martin Kada
COSIT
2007
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations
Consistent and flawless communication between humans and machines is the precondition for a computer to process instructions correctly. While machines use well-defined languages an...
Angela Schwering
COSIT
2007
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions
Abstract. Landmarks are crucial for human wayfinding. Their integration in wayfinding assistance systems is essential for generating cognitively ergonomic route directions. I prese...
Kai-Florian Richter
COSIT
2007
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the 'Drop-Off' Orientation Task
Previous work is reviewed and an experiment described to examine the spatial and strategic cognitive factors impacting on human orientation in the `drop-off' static orientatio...
David Peebles, Clare Davies, Rodrigo Mora
COSIT
2007
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
From Top-Level to Domain Ontologies: Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study
Abstract. We present a methodology of how to use a top-level ontology to create a domain ontology from existing scientific texts by (1) identifying informal definitions of domain-s...
Thomas Bittner
COSIT
2007
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Affordance-Based Similarity Measurement for Entity Types
Krzysztof Janowicz, Martin Raubal
COSIT
2007
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Spatial Semantics in Difference Spaces
Higher level semantics are considered useful in the geospatial domain, yet there is no general consensus on the form these semantics should take. Indeed, knowledge representation p...
Vlad Tanasescu
COSIT
2007
Springer
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Relations in Mathematical Morphology with Applications to Graphs and Rough Sets
Rough sets have been applied in spatial information theory to construct theories of granularity – presenting information at different levels of detail. Mathematical morphology c...
John G. Stell
COSIT
2007
Springer
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Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot
When animals (including humans) first explore a new environment, what they remember is fragmentary knowledge about the places visited. Yet, they have to use such fragmentary knowl...
Jochen Schmidt, Chee K. Wong, Wai K. Yeap
COSIT
2007
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Specifying Essential Features of Street Networks
In order to apply advanced high-level concepts for transportation networks, like hypergraphs, multi-level wayfinding and traffic forecasting, to commercially available street netwo...
Simon Scheider, Daniel Schulz