This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2009 held in Aber Wrac'h, France in September 2009.
The 30 revised full papers were carefully reviewed from 70 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on cognitive processing and models for spatial cognition, semantic modeling, spatial reasoning, spatial cognition, spatial knowledge, scene and visibility modeling, spatial modeling, events and processes, and route planning.
Author(s): Daniel R. Montello (auth.), Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, Christophe Claramunt, Michel Denis, Gérard Ligozat (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5756 : Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 505
Tags: Data Structures; Database Management; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; Models and Principles; Information Systems and Communication Service; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
Front Matter....Pages -
A Conceptual Model of the Cognitive Processing of Environmental Distance Information....Pages 1-17
Spatial Cognition of Geometric Figures in the Context of Proportional Analogies....Pages 18-35
Are Places Concepts? Familarity and Expertise Effects in Neighborhood Cognition....Pages 36-50
A Metric Conceptual Space Algebra....Pages 51-68
Grounding Geographic Categories in the Meaningful Environment....Pages 69-87
Terabytes of Tobler: Evaluating the First Law in a Massive, Domain-Neutral Representation of World Knowledge....Pages 88-105
Merging Qualitative Constraint Networks Defined on Different Qualitative Formalisms....Pages 106-123
Semi-automated Derivation of Conceptual Neighborhood Graphs of Topological Relations....Pages 124-140
Exploiting Qualitative Spatial Constraints for Multi-hypothesis Topological Map Learning....Pages 141-158
Comparing Relations with a Multi-holed Region....Pages 159-176
The Endpoint Hypothesis: A Topological-Cognitive Assessment of Geographic Scale Movement Patterns....Pages 177-194
Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Visual Variables for Geographic Information Visualization....Pages 195-211
SeaTouch: A Haptic and Auditory Maritime Environment for Non Visual Cognitive Mapping of Blind Sailors....Pages 212-226
Assigning Footprints to Dot Sets: An Analytical Survey....Pages 227-244
Mental Tectonics - Rendering Consistent μMaps....Pages 245-262
To Be and Not To Be: 3-Valued Relations on Graphs....Pages 263-279
Map Algebraic Characterization of Self-adapting Neighborhoods....Pages 280-294
Scene Modelling and Classification Using Learned Spatial Relations....Pages 295-311
A Qualitative Approach to Localization and Navigation Based on Visibility Information....Pages 312-329
Showing Where To Go by Maps or Pictures: An Empirical Case Study at Subway Exits....Pages 330-341
The Abduction of Geographic Information Science: Transporting Spatial Reasoning to the Realm of Purpose and Design....Pages 342-356
An Algebraic Approach to Image Schemas for Geographic Space....Pages 357-370
Spatio-terminological Inference for the Design of Ambient Environments....Pages 371-391
Defining Spatial Entropy from Multivariate Distributions of Co-occurrences....Pages 392-404
Case-Based Reasoning for Eliciting the Evolution of Geospatial Objects....Pages 405-420
Composing Models of Geographic Physical Processes....Pages 421-435
Decentralized Time Geography for Ad-Hoc Collaborative Planning....Pages 436-452
Adaptable Path Planning in Regionalized Environments....Pages 453-470
An Analysis of Direction and Motion Concepts in Verbal Descriptions of Route Choices....Pages 471-488
The Role of Angularity in Route Choice....Pages 489-504
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