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.
Author(s): Antony Galton (auth.), Walter Kuhn, Michael F. Worboys, Sabine Timpf (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2825
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 399
Tags: Data Structures; Computer Applications in Earth Sciences; Computation by Abstract Devices; Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
Front Matter....Pages -
Desiderata for a Spatio-temporal Geo-ontology....Pages 1-12
Scale in Object and Process Ontologies....Pages 13-27
Landscape Categories in Yindjibarndi: Ontology, Environment, and Language....Pages 28-45
Layers: A New Approach to Locating Objects in Space....Pages 46-60
Spatial Reasoning about Relative Orientation and Distance for Robot Exploration....Pages 61-74
Structuring a Wayfinder’s Dynamic Space-Time Environment....Pages 75-92
Systematic Distortions in Cognitive Maps: The North American West Coast vs. the (West) Coast of Israel....Pages 93-100
Tripartite Line Tracks Qualitative Curvature Information....Pages 101-117
Linearized Terrain: Languages for Silhouette Representations....Pages 118-135
Maintaining Spatial Relations in an Incremental Diagrammatic Reasoner....Pages 136-150
MAGS Project: Multi-agent GeoSimulation and Crowd Simulation....Pages 151-168
“Simplest” Paths: Automated Route Selection for Navigation....Pages 169-185
A Classification Framework for Approaches to Achieving Semantic Interoperability between GI Web Services....Pages 186-203
Relative Adjacencies in Spatial Pseudo-Partitions....Pages 204-220
A Geometry for Places: Representing Extension and Extended Objects....Pages 221-238
Intuitive Modelling of Place Name Regions for Spatial Information Retrieval....Pages 239-252
Convexity in Discrete Space....Pages 253-269
Stratified Rough Sets and Vagueness....Pages 270-286
Communicating Vague Spatial Concepts in Human-GIS Interactions: A Collaborative Dialogue Approach....Pages 287-300
Wayfinding Choremes....Pages 301-315
Testing the First Law of Cognitive Geography on Point-Display Spatializations....Pages 316-331
Constructing Semantically Scalable Cognitive Spaces....Pages 332-348
Route Adaptive Selection of Salient Features....Pages 349-361
Referring to Landmark or Street Information in Route Directions: What Difference Does It Make?....Pages 362-374
Extracting Landmarks with Data Mining Methods....Pages 375-389
Visual Attention during Route Learning: A Look at Selection and Engagement....Pages 390-398
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