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Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science : International Conference, COSIT 2003, Ittingen, Switzerland, September 24-28, 2003, Proceedings / edited by Werner Kuhn, Michael F. Worboys, Sabine Timpf.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Kuhn, Werner, editor.
Worboys, Michael F., editor.
Timpf, Sabine, editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
Series:
Computer Science (Springer-11645)
Lecture notes in computer science 0302-9743 ; 2825.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 0302-9743 ; 2825
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Geographic information systems.
Data structures (Computer science).
Earth sciences.
Computers.
Database management.
Artificial intelligence.
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.
Data Structures.
Earth Sciences, general.
Computation by Abstract Devices.
Database Management.
Artificial Intelligence.
Local Subjects:
Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.
Data Structures.
Earth Sciences, general.
Computation by Abstract Devices.
Database Management.
Artificial Intelligence.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (XI, 399 pages).
Edition:
First edition 2003.
Contained In:
Springer eBooks
Place of Publication:
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
System Details:
text file PDF
Summary:
COSIT,theseriesofConferencesonSpatialInformationTheory,hasbeenaround for more than ten years. Its hallmarks are a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue between computational and human perspectives on spatio-temporal information and a thorough review process that selects the best papers while giving all - thors detailed feedback on how to develop their work. A clear pro?le of the COSIT community has emerged from the series of conference proceedings, all published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and from the per- nent web site at http://www. cosit. info, containing links to the conference web sites and proceedings, a history and program of the series, an impact study, interviews with participants, and pictures. The proceedings of this sixth conference provide ample evidence that COSIT is healthy and maturing, while retaining its youth. Out of the 61 submissions, the program committee selected 26 papers for presentation, in discussions based on at least three double-blind reviews and one or more meta-review from PC members for each paper. Classical COSIT themes, such as spatial reasoning (about distances and directions, regions and shapes) or vagueness are being f- ther re?ned; topics like way?nding and landmarks are boosted by new synergies betweencognitiveandcomputationalapproaches;andthestudyofontologiesfor space and time, a subject since the ?rst COSIT, is gaining more depth.
Contents:
Ontologies of Space and Time
Desiderata for a Spatio-temporal Geo-ontology
Scale in Object and Process Ontologies
Landscape Categories in Yindjibarndi: Ontology, Environment, and Language
Layers: A New Approach to Locating Objects in Space
Reasoning about Distances and Directions
Spatial Reasoning about Relative Orientation and Distance for Robot Exploration
Structuring a Wayfinder's Dynamic Space-Time Environment
Systematic Distortions in Cognitive Maps: The North American West Coast vs. the (West) Coast of Israel
Spatial Reasoning: Shapes and Diagrams
Tripartite Line Tracks Qualitative Curvature Information
Linearized Terrain: Languages for Silhouette Representations
Maintaining Spatial Relations in an Incremental Diagrammatic Reasoner
Computational Approaches
MAGS Project: Multi-agent GeoSimulation and Crowd Simulation
"Simplest" Paths: Automated Route Selection for Navigation
A Classification Framework for Approaches to Achieving Semantic Interoperability between GI Web Services
Reasoning about Regions
Relative Adjacencies in Spatial Pseudo-Partitions
A Geometry for Places: Representing Extension and Extended Objects
Intuitive Modelling of Place Name Regions for Spatial Information Retrieval
Convexity in Discrete Space
Vagueness
Stratified Rough Sets and Vagueness
Communicating Vague Spatial Concepts in Human-GIS Interactions: A Collaborative Dialogue Approach
Visualization
Wayfinding Choremes
Testing the First Law of Cognitive Geography on Point-Display Spatializations
Constructing Semantically Scalable Cognitive Spaces
Landmarks and Wayfinding
Route Adaptive Selection of Salient Features
Referring to Landmark or Street Information in Route Directions: What Difference Does It Make?
Extracting Landmarks with Data Mining Methods
Visual Attention during Route Learning: A Look at Selection and Engagement.
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Printed edition:
ISBN:
978-3-540-39923-0
9783540399230
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