This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Australia, in September 2007.
The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, mapping and representation, perception and cognition, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and landmarks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection.
Author(s): David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, David Stea (auth.), Stephan Winter, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik, Ben Kuipers (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4736
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 455
Tags: Data Structures; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computation by Abstract Devices; Database Management; Models and Principles; Physical Geography
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Progress on Yindjibarndi Ethnophysiography....Pages 1-19
Study of Cultural Impacts on Location Judgments in Eastern China....Pages 20-31
Cross-Cultural Similarities in Topological Reasoning....Pages 32-46
Thalassographeïn: Representing Maritime Spaces in Ancient Greece....Pages 47-60
From Top-Level to Domain Ontologies: Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study....Pages 61-77
Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of ‘Place’....Pages 78-95
Spatial Semantics in Difference Spaces....Pages 96-115
Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations....Pages 116-132
Affordance-Based Similarity Measurement for Entity Types....Pages 133-151
An Image-Schematic Account of Spatial Categories....Pages 152-168
Specifying Essential Features of Street Networks....Pages 169-185
Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot....Pages 186-202
Spatial Mapping and Map Exploitation: A Bio-inspired Engineering Perspective....Pages 203-221
Scale-Dependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing....Pages 222-237
Degradation in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition When Using Automatic Navigation Systems....Pages 238-254
Stories as Route Descriptions....Pages 255-267
Three Sampling Methods for Visibility Measures of Landscape Perception....Pages 268-284
Reasoning on Spatial Semantic Integrity Constraints....Pages 285-302
Spatial Reasoning with a Hole....Pages 303-320
Geospatial Cluster Tessellation Through the Complete Order- k Voronoi Diagrams....Pages 321-336
Drawing a Figure in a Two-Dimensional Plane for a Qualitative Representation....Pages 337-353
Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts....Pages 354-372
A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions....Pages 373-389
Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the ‘Drop-Off’ Orientation Task....Pages 390-405
Data Quality Ontology: An Ontology for Imperfect Knowledge....Pages 406-420
Triangulation of Gradient Polygons: A Spatial Data Model for Categorical Fields....Pages 421-437
Relations in Mathematical Morphology with Applications to Graphs and Rough Sets....Pages 438-454
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