This volume collects the papers presented at the first international conference dedicated to spatial and temporal reasoning in geographic space, entitled "GIS: from space to territory - theories and methods of spatio-temporal reasoning". Within the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA, one of the supporters of the conference) the importance of spatial and temporal reasoning was recognized several years ago. Initial research found that spatial reasoning in geographic or large-scale space is different from spatial reasoning in small-scale space, as usually dealt with in robotics and expertsystems. Temporal reasoning has attracted interest in the artificial intelligence community. The volume also includes two invited papers: "Do people understand spatial concepts: the case of first-order primtives" by R.G. Golledge, and "Temporal databases" by R.T. Snodgrass.
Author(s): Reginald G. Golledge (auth.), A. U. Frank, I. Campari, U. Formentini (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 639
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 439
Tags: Database Management; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Graphics; Data Structures; Data Storage Representation; Pattern Recognition
Do people understand spatial concepts: The case of first-order primitives....Pages 1-21
Temporal databases....Pages 22-64
People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): Beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS....Pages 65-77
Time and space:An economic model....Pages 78-96
The changing language of and persisting patterns in the urban design of Edo/Tokyo....Pages 97-109
Toward a behavioral theory of regionalization....Pages 110-121
Descriptive modeling and prescriptive modeling in spatial data handling....Pages 122-135
The geometry of environmental knowledge....Pages 136-152
Spatial reasoning using symbolic arrays....Pages 153-161
Using orientation information for qualitative spatial reasoning....Pages 162-178
The observer's point of view: An extension of symbolic projections....Pages 179-195
Reasoning about gradual changes of topological relationships....Pages 196-219
The meaning of “neighbour”....Pages 220-235
A hierarchical triangle-based model for terrain description....Pages 236-251
A model for expressing topological integrity constraints in geographic databases....Pages 252-268
Encoding spatial information: The evidence for hierarchical processing....Pages 269-287
Is there a relationship between spatial cognition and environmental patterns?....Pages 288-304
Counter-intuitive geographic ‘facts’: Clues for spatial reasoning at geographic scales....Pages 305-317
Spatial-linguistic reasoning in LEI....Pages 318-327
User models and information theory in the design of a query interface for GIS....Pages 328-347
A conceptual model of wayfinding using multiple levels of abstraction....Pages 348-367
Towards acquiring spatio-temporal knowledge from sensor data....Pages 368-378
Automatically acquiring knowledge by digital maps in artificial intelligence planning techniques....Pages 379-401
Machine induction of geospatial knowledge....Pages 402-417
Treatment of qualitative geographic information in monitoring environmental pollution....Pages 418-431
