ISBN: 3540663657
TITLE: Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
AUTHOR: Freksa, Christian; Mark, David M. (Eds.)
TOC:

Landmarks and Navigation
Rdiger Wehner
Large-scale navigation: The insect case 1
Thomas Rfer
Route navigation using motion analysis 21
Molly E. Sorrows and Stephen C. Hirtle
The nature of landmarks for real and electronic spaces 37
Route Directions
Barbara Tversky and Paul U. Lee
Pictorial and verbal tools for conveying routes 51
Kristin L. Lovelace, Mary Hegarty, and Daniel R. Montello
Elements of good route directions in familiar and unfamiliar environments 65
Sylvie Fontaine and Michel Denis
The production of route instructions in underground and urban environments 83
Abstraction and Spatial Hierarchies
Andrew U. Frank
One step up the abstraction ladder: Combining algebras  from functional pieces to a whole 95
Emilio Remolina, Juan A. Fernandez, Benjamin Kuipers, and Javier Gonzalez
Formalizing regions in the spatial semantic hierarchy: An AH-graphs implementation approach 109
Sabine Timpf
Abstraction, levels of detail, and hierarchies in map series 125
Stephan Winter
Topological relations in hierarchical partitions 141
Spatial Reasoning Calculi
Carola Eschenbach
A predication calculus for qualitative spatial representations 157
Grard Ligozat
Simple models for simple calculi 173
Ralf Mller and Michael Wessel
Terminological default reasoning about spatial information: A first step 189
Lars Kulik and Alexander Klippel
Reasoning about cardinal directions using grids as qualitative geographic
coordinates 205
Ontology of Space
Nicola Guarino
The role of identity conditions in ontology design 221
Claudio Masolo and Laure Vieu
Atomicity vs. infinite divisibility of space 235
Antony Galton
The mereotopology of discrete space 251
Barry Smith
Agglomerations 267
David M. Mark, Barry Smith, and Barbara Tversky
Ontology and geographic objects: An empirical study of cognitive categorizaton 283
Anthony G. Cohn and Achille C.Varzi
Modes of connection 299
Visual Representation and Reasoning
John S. Gero
Representation and reasoning about shapes: Cognitive and computational studies in visual reasoning in design 315
Werner Kuhn
An algebraic interpretation of semantic networks 331
Gennady Andrienko and Natalia Andrienko
Data characterization schema for intelligent support in visual data analysis 349
Maps and Routes
Hanspeter A. Mallot, Sabine Gillner, Sibylle D. Steck, and Matthias O. Franz
Recognition-triggered response and the view-graph approach to spatial cognition 367
Martin Raubal and Michael Worboys
A formal model of the process of wayfinding in built environments 381
Driss Kettani and Bernard Moulin
A spatial model based on the notions of spatial conceptual map and of object's influence areas 401
Granularity and Qualitative Abstraction
John G. Stell
Granulation for graphs 417
Thomas Bittner
On ontology and epistemology of rough location 433
Christopher D. Ellis and Douglas M. Johnston
Qualitative spatial representation for situational awareness and spatial decision support 449
Alexandra Musto, Klaus Stein, Kerstin Schill, Andreas Eisenkolb, and
Wilfried Brauer
Qualitative motion representations in egocentric and allocentric frames
of reference 461
Author Index 477
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