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Spatial Information Theory

9th International Conference, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21-25, 2009, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Kathleen Stewart Hornsby

    1. Department of Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

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  2. Christophe Claramunt

    1. Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France

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  3. Michel Denis

    1. Groupe Cognition Humaine, LIMSI-CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

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  4. Gérard Ligozat

    1. LIMSI-CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5756)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

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Table of contents (30 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Cognitive Processing and Models for Spatial Cognition

    1. A Conceptual Model of the Cognitive Processing of Environmental Distance Information

      • Daniel R. Montello
      Pages 1-17

    2. Spatial Cognition of Geometric Figures in the Context of Proportional Analogies

      • Angela Schwering, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Ulf Krumnack, Helmar Gust
      Pages 18-35

    3. Are Places Concepts? Familarity and Expertise Effects in Neighborhood Cognition

      • Clare Davies
      Pages 36-50

  3. Semantic Modeling

    1. A Metric Conceptual Space Algebra

      • Benjamin Adams, Martin Raubal
      Pages 51-68

    2. Grounding Geographic Categories in the Meaningful Environment

      • Simon Scheider, Krzysztof Janowicz, Werner Kuhn
      Pages 69-87

    3. Terabytes of Tobler: Evaluating the First Law in a Massive, Domain-Neutral Representation of World Knowledge

      • Brent Hecht, Emily Moxley
      Pages 88-105

  4. Spatial Reasoning

    1. Merging Qualitative Constraint Networks Defined on Different Qualitative Formalisms

      • Jean-François Condotta, Souhila Kaci, Pierre Marquis, Nicolas Schwind
      Pages 106-123

    2. Semi-automated Derivation of Conceptual Neighborhood Graphs of Topological Relations

      • Yohei Kurata
      Pages 124-140

    3. Exploiting Qualitative Spatial Constraints for Multi-hypothesis Topological Map Learning

      • Jan Oliver Wallgrün
      Pages 141-158

    4. Comparing Relations with a Multi-holed Region

      • Maria Vasardani, Max J. Egenhofer
      Pages 159-176

  6. Spatial Knowledge

    1. Assigning Footprints to Dot Sets: An Analytical Survey

      • Maximillian Dupenois, Antony Galton
      Pages 227-244

    2. Mental Tectonics - Rendering Consistent μMaps

      • Falko Schmid
      Pages 245-262

    3. To Be and Not To Be: 3-Valued Relations on Graphs

      • John G. Stell
      Pages 263-279

    4. Map Algebraic Characterization of Self-adapting Neighborhoods

      • Takeshi Shirabe
      Pages 280-294

  7. Scene and Visibility Modeling

    1. Scene Modelling and Classification Using Learned Spatial Relations

      • Hannah M. Dee, David C. Hogg, Anthony G. Cohn
      Pages 295-311

    2. A Qualitative Approach to Localization and Navigation Based on Visibility Information

      • Paolo Fogliaroni, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Eliseo Clementini, Francesco Tarquini, Diedrich Wolter
      Pages 312-329
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First established in 1993 with a conference in Elba, Italy, COSIT (the International C- ference on Spatial Information Theory) is widely acknowledged as one of the most - portant conferences for the field of spatial information theory. This conference series brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines for intensive scientific - changes centered on spatial information theory. COSIT submissions typically address research questions drawn from cognitive, perceptual, and environmental psychology, geography, spatial information science, computer science, artificial intelligence, cog- tive science, engineering, cognitive anthropology, linguistics, ontology, architecture, planning, and environmental design. Some of the topical areas include, for example, the cognitive structure of spatial knowledge; events and processes in geographic space; incomplete or imprecise spatial knowledge; languages of spatial relations; navigation by organisms and robots; ontology of space; communication of spatial information; and the social and cultural organization of space to name a few. This volume contains the papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2009, held in Aber Wrac’h, France, September 21–25, 2009. For COSIT 2009, 70 full paper submissions were received. These papers were carefully reviewed by an international Program Committee based on relevance to the conference, intellectual quality, scientific significance, novelty, relation to previously published literature, and clarity of presentation. After reviewing was completed, 30 papers were selected for presentation at the conference and appear in this volume. This number of papers reflects the high quality of submissions to COSIT this year.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

    Kathleen Stewart Hornsby

  • Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France

    Christophe Claramunt

  • Groupe Cognition Humaine, LIMSI-CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

    Michel Denis

  • LIMSI-CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

    Gérard Ligozat

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