Topological relations are sometimes insufficient for differentiating spatial configurations of two objects with critical difference in their connection styles. In this paper, we pr...
Within the geographic domain, an important class of relies on geometric abstractions in the form of lines where, for instance, transportation networks and trajectories of movement...
Topological relations between geographic regions are of interest in many applications. When the exact boundaries of regions are not available, such relations can be established by...
Steven Schockaert, Philip D. Smart, Alia I. Abdelm...
Illustrating a dynamic process with an arrow-containing diagram is a widespread convention in people's daily communications. In order to build a basis for capturing the struct...
When we derive multi-scale databases from a source spatial database, the geometries and topological relations, which are a kind of constraints defined explicitly or implicitly in ...
Summarizing topological relations is fundamental to many spatial applications including spatial query optimization. In this paper, we examine the selectivity estimation for range w...
Cavities in spatial phenomena require geometric representations of regions with holes. Existing models for reasoning over topological relations either exclude such specialized regi...
Movement patterns of individual entities at the geographic scale are becoming a prominent research focus in spatial sciences. One pertinent question is how cognitive and formal cha...
Conceptual neighborhood graphs are similarity-based schemata of spatial/temporal relations. This paper proposes a semi-automated method for deriving a conceptual neighborhood graph...
Topological relations, which concern how two objects intersect, are one of the most fundamental and well-studied spatial relations. Typically, topological relations are distinguis...