The Conference on Spatial Information Theory – COSIT – grew out of a series of workshops / NATO Advanced Study Institutes / NSF specialist meetings concerned with cognitive and applied aspects of representing large-scale space, particularly geographic space. In these meetings, the need for a well-founded theory of spatial information processing was identified. The COSIT conference series was established in 1993 as a biennial interdisciplinary European conference on the representation and processing of information about large-scale space, after a successful international conference on the topic had been organized by Andrew Frank et al. in Pisa, Italy, in 1992 (frequently referred to as ‘COSIT zero’). After two successful European conferences with strong North-American participation (COSIT ’93, held on the Island of Elba, Italy; COSIT ’95, held in Semmering, Austria), the conference became a truly international enterprise when COSIT ’97 was held in the Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania, USA. COSIT ’99 will take place in Stade, Germany. All aspects of large-scale space, i. e. spaces too large to be seen from a single vantage point, are addressed in the COSIT conferences. These include spaces of geographic scale, as well as smaller spaces in which humans, animals, or autonomous robots have to find their way around. Spatial information theory also deals with the description of objects, processes, or events in spatial environments and it forms the foundation for the construction of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and for spatial information and communication system design in general.
Author(s): Rüdiger Wehner (auth.), Christian Freksa, David M. Mark (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1661
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 486
Tags: Database Management; Multimedia Information Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
Large-Scale Navigation: The Insect Case....Pages 1-20
Route Navigation Using Motion Analysis....Pages 21-36
The Nature of Landmarks for Real and Electronic Spaces....Pages 37-50
Pictorial and Verbal Tools for Conveying Routes....Pages 51-64
Elements of Good Route Directions in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments....Pages 65-82
The Production of Route Instructions in Underground and Urban Environments....Pages 83-94
One Step up the Abstraction Ladder: Combining Algebras - From Functional Pieces to a Whole....Pages 95-107
Formalizing Regions in the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy: an AH-Graphs implementation approach....Pages 109-124
Abstraction, Levels of Detail, and Hierarchies in Map Series....Pages 125-139
Topological Relations in Hierarchical Partitions....Pages 141-155
A Predication Calculus for Qualitative Spatial Representations....Pages 157-172
Simple Models for Simple Calculi....Pages 173-188
Terminological Default Reasoning about Spatial Information: A First Step....Pages 189-204
Reasoning about Cardinal Directions Using Grids as Qualitative Geographic Coordinates....Pages 205-220
The Role of Identity Conditions in Ontology Design....Pages 221-234
Atomicity vs. Infinite Divisibility of Space....Pages 235-250
The Mereotopology of Discrete Space....Pages 251-266
Agglomerations....Pages 267-282
Ontology and Geographic Objects: An Empirical Study of Cognitive Categorization....Pages 283-298
Modes of Connection....Pages 299-314
Representation and Reasoning about Shapes: Cognitive and Computational Studies in Visual Reasoning in Design....Pages 315-330
An Algebraic Interpretation of Semantic Networks....Pages 331-347
Data Characterization Schema for Intelligent Support in Visual Data Analysis....Pages 349-365
Recognition—Triggered Response and the View—Graph Approach to Spatial Cognition....Pages 367-380
A Formal Model of the Process of Wayfinding in Built Environments....Pages 381-399
A Spatial Model Based on the Notions of Spatial Conceptual Map and of Object’s Influence Areas....Pages 401-416
Granulation for Graphs....Pages 417-432
On Ontology and Epistemology of Rough Location....Pages 433-448
Qualitative Spatial Representation for Situational Awareness and Spatial Decision Support....Pages 449-460
Qualitative Motion Representation in Egocentric and Allocentric Frames of Reference....Pages 461-476
