Spatial Information Theory: 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007, Proceedings

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Stephan Winter, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik, Ben Kuipers
Springer, Aug 26, 2007 - Computers - 455 pages

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

Progress on Yindjibarndi Ethnophysiography
1
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
Author Index
455
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