Spatial Information Theory - Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science : International Conference COSIT'99, Stade, Germany, August 25-29, 1999 Proceedings

by Freksa, Christian; Mark, David M.

• ISBN13: 9783540663652
• ISBN10: 3540663657
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT '99, held in Stade, Germany, in August 1999.The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The book is divided into topical sections on landmarks and navigation, route directions, abstraction and spatial hierarchies, spatial reasoning calculi, ontology of space, visual representation and reasoning, maps and routes, and granularity and qualitative abstraction.

Table of Contents

Landmarks and Navigation
Large-scale navigation: The insect case	1	(20)
Rudiger-Wehner
Route navigation using motion analysis	21	(16)
Thomas Rofer
The nature of landmarks for real and electronic spaces	37	(14)
Molly E. Sorrows
Stephen C. Hirtle
Route Directions
Pictorial and verbal tools for conveying routes	51	(14)
Barbara Tversky
Paul U. Lee
Elements of good route directions in familiar and unfamiliar environments	65	(18)
Kristin L. Lovelace
Mary Hegarty
Daniel R. Montello
The production of route instructions in underground and urban environments	83	(12)
Sylvie Fontaine
Michel Denis
Abstraction and Spatial Hierarchies
One step up the abstraction ladder: Combining algebras - from functional pieces to a whole	95	(14)
Andrew U. Frank
Formalizing regions in the spatial semantic hierarchy: An AH-graphs implementation approach	109	(16)
Emilio Remolina
Juan A. Fernandez
Benjamin Kuipers
Javier Gonzalez
Abstraction, levels of detail, and hierarchies in map series	125	(16)
Sabine Timpf
Topological relations in hierarchical partitions	141	(16)
Stephan Winter
Spatial Reasoning Calculi
A prediction calculus for qualitative spatial representations	157	(16)
Carola Eschenbach
Simple models for simple calculi	173	(16)
Gerard Ligozat
Terminological default reasoning about spatial information: A first step	189	(16)
Ralf Moller
Michael Wessel
Reasoning about cardinal directions using grids as qualitative geographic coordinates	205	(16)
Lars Kulik
Alexander Klippel
Ontology of Space
The role of identity conditions in ontology design	221	(14)
Nicola Guarino
Atomicity vs. infinite divisibility of space	235	(16)
Claudio Masolo
Laure Vieu
The mereotopology of discrete space	251	(16)
Antony Galton
Aggloemerations	267	(16)
Barry Smith
Ontology and geographic objects: An empirical study of cognitive categorization	283	(16)
David M. Mark
Barry Smith
Barbara Tversky
Modes of connection	299	(16)
Anthony G. Cohn
Achille C. Varzi
Visual Representation and Reasoning
Representation and reasoning about shapes: Cognitive and computational studies in visual reasoning in design	315	(16)
John S. Gero
An algebraic interpretation of semantic networks	331	(36)
Werner Kuhn
Data characterization scheme for intelligent support in visual data analysis	349
Gennady Andrienko
Natalia Andrienko
Maps and Routes
Recognition-triggered response and the view-graph approach to spatial cognition	367	(14)
Hanspeter A. Mallot
Sabine Gillner
Sibylle D. Steck
Matthias O. Franz
A formal model of the process of wayfinding in built environments	381	(20)
Martin Raubal
Michael Worboys
A spatial model based on the notions of spatial conceptual map and of object's influence areas	401	(16)
Driss Kettani
Bernard Moulin
Granularity and Qualitative Abstraction
Granulation for graphs	417	(16)
John G. Stell
On ontology and epistemology of rough location	433	(16)
Thomas Bittner
Qualitative spatial representation for situational awareness and spatial decision support	449	(12)
Christopher D. Ellis
Douglas M. Johnston
Qualitative motion representations in egocentric and allocentric frames of reference	461	(16)
Alexandra Musto
Klaus Stein
Kerstin Schill
Andreas Eisenkolb
Wilfried Brauer
Author Index	477