Spatial Information Theory: 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007, ProceedingsStephan Winter, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik, Ben Kuipers This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2007. The 27 revised full papers were carefully reviewed from 102 submissions, and they are organized in topical sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, mapping and representation, perception and cognition, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and landmarks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection. |
Contents
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Study of Cultural Impacts on Location Judgments in Eastern China | 20 |
CrossCultural Similarities in Topological Reasoning | 32 |
Representing Maritime Spaces in Ancient Greece | 47 |
Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study | 61 |
Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of Place | 78 |
Spatial Semantics in Difference Spaces | 96 |
Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations | 116 |
Degradation in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition When Using Automatic Navigation Systems | 238 |
Stories as Route Descriptions | 255 |
Three Sampling Methods for Visibility Measures of Landscape Perception | 268 |
Reasoning on Spatial Semantic Integrity Constraints | 285 |
Spatial Reasoning with a Hole | 303 |
Geospatial Cluster Tessellation Through the Complete Orderk Voronoi Diagrams | 321 |
Drawing a Figure in a TwoDimensional Plane for a Qualitative Representation | 337 |
Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts | 354 |
AffordanceBased Similarity Measurement for Entity Types | 133 |
An ImageSchematic Account of Spatial Categories | 152 |
Specifying Essential Features of Street Networks | 169 |
Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot | 186 |
A Bioinspired Engineering Perspective | 203 |
ScaleDependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing | 222 |
A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions | 373 |
Effects of Geometry Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the DropOff Orientation Task | 390 |
An Ontology for Imperfect Knowledge | 406 |
A Spatial Data Model for Categorical Fields | 421 |
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