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Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science

International Conference, COSIT 2003, Ittingen, Switzerland, September 24-28, 2003, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2825)

Conference series link(s): COSIT: International Conference on Spatial Information Theory

Conference proceedings info: COSIT 2003.

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Table of contents (26 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Ontologies of Space and Time

    1. Scale in Object and Process Ontologies

      • Femke Reitsma, Thomas Bittner
      Pages 13-27
    2. Layers: A New Approach to Locating Objects in Space

      • Maureen Donnelly, Barry Smith
      Pages 46-60
  3. Reasoning about Distances and Directions

    1. Structuring a Wayfinder’s Dynamic Space-Time Environment

      • Michael D. Hendricks, Max J. Egenhofer, Kathleen Hornsby
      Pages 75-92
  4. Spatial Reasoning: Shapes and Diagrams

    1. Linearized Terrain: Languages for Silhouette Representations

      • Lars Kulik, Max J. Egenhofer
      Pages 118-135
    2. Maintaining Spatial Relations in an Incremental Diagrammatic Reasoner

      • Ronald W. Ferguson, Joseph L. Bokor, Rudolph L. Mappus IV, Adam Feldman
      Pages 136-150
  5. Computational Approaches

    1. MAGS Project: Multi-agent GeoSimulation and Crowd Simulation

      • Bernard Moulin, Walid Chaker, Jimmy Perron, Patrick Pelletier, Jimmy Hogan, Edouard Gbei
      Pages 151-168
  6. Reasoning about Regions

    1. Relative Adjacencies in Spatial Pseudo-Partitions

      • Roderic Béra, Christophe Claramunt
      Pages 204-220
    2. Intuitive Modelling of Place Name Regions for Spatial Information Retrieval

      • Thomas Vögele, Christoph Schlieder, Ubbo Visser
      Pages 239-252
    3. Convexity in Discrete Space

      • Anthony J. Roy, John G. Stell
      Pages 253-269
  7. Vagueness

    1. Stratified Rough Sets and Vagueness

      • Thomas Bittner, John G. Stell
      Pages 270-286

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About this book

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.

Keywords

  • GIS
  • Geoinformationssysteme
  • Navigation
  • classification
  • data mining
  • information theory
  • ontology
  • robot
  • spatial cognition
  • spatial information retr
  • spatial information theory
  • spatio-temporal databases
  • spatio-temporal geo-ontologies
  • spatio-temporal information processing
  • visualization
  • data structures

Editors and Affiliations

  • Austrian Research Centers Department of Information Technology and Telematics,  

    Walter Kuhn

  • Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, USA

    Michael F. Worboys

  • Department of Geography, University of Zürich,  

    Sabine Timpf

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