Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space

International Conference GIS - From Space to Territory: Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning, Pisa, Italy, September 21-23, 1992. Proceedings
1992
ISBN: 978-3-540-55966-5
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, Band 639, 439 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1390 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

This volume collects the papers presented at the first
international conference dedicated to spatial and temporal
reasoning in geographic space, entitled "GIS: from space to
territory - theories and methods of spatio-temporal
reasoning".
Within the National Center for Geographic Information and
Analysis (NCGIA, one of the supporters of the conference)
the importance of spatial and temporal reasoning was
recognized several years ago. Initial research found that
spatial reasoning in geographic or large-scale space is
different from spatial reasoning in small-scale space, as
usually dealt with in robotics and expertsystems. Temporal
reasoning has attracted interest in the artificial
intelligence community.
The volume also includes two invited papers: "Do people
understand spatial concepts: the case of first-order
primtives" by R.G. Golledge, and "Temporal databases" by
R.T. Snodgrass.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frank, Andrew U.

Formentini, Ubaldo

Campari, Irene

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Datenkompression, Dokumentaustauschformate
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Grafikprogrammierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Zeichen- und Zahlendarstellungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Do people understand spatial concepts: The case of first-order primitives.- Temporal databases.- People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): Beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS.- Time and space:An economic model.- The changing language of and persisting patterns in the urban design of Edo/Tokyo.- Toward a behavioral theory of regionalization.- Descriptive modeling and prescriptive modeling in spatial data handling.- The geometry of environmental knowledge.- Spatial reasoning using symbolic arrays.- Using orientation information for qualitative spatial reasoning.- The observer's point of view: An extension of symbolic projections.- Reasoning about gradual changes of topological relationships.- The meaning of “neighbour”.- A hierarchical triangle-based model for terrain description.- A model for expressing topological integrity constraints in geographic databases.- Encoding spatial information: The evidence for hierarchical processing.- Is there a relationship between spatial cognition and environmental patterns?.- Counter-intuitive geographic ‘facts’: Clues for spatial reasoning at geographic scales.- Spatial-linguistic reasoning in LEI.- User models and information theory in the design of a query interface for GIS.- A conceptual model of wayfinding using multiple levels of abstraction.- Towards acquiring spatio-temporal knowledge from sensor data.- Automatically acquiring knowledge by digital maps in artificial intelligence planning techniques.- Machine induction of geospatial knowledge.- Treatment of qualitative geographic information in monitoring environmental pollution.