Qualitative spatio-temporal representation and reasoning trends and future directions /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Hazarika, Shyamanta M.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: Qualitative reasoning.; Spatial analysis (Statistics); Space and time > Mathematical models.; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.; Computer vision; Databases; Distributed multi-dimensional search; Formal modeling of space, time and change; GIS/spatial information systems; Integrated ontologies for spatial scene descriptions; Knowledge discovery and data mining; Mobile computing; Qualitative spatial modeling and reasoning; Spatio-temporal patterns
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"This book is a contribution to the emerging discipline of qualitative spatial information theory within artificial intelligence, covering both theory and application-centric research and providing a comprehensive perspective on the emerging area of qualitative spatio-temporal representation an...

Table of Contents:

• Region-based theories of space: mereotopology and beyond / Torsten Hahmann, Michael Grüninger
• PLCA: a framework for qualitative spatial reasoning based on connection patterns of regions / Kazuko Takahashi
• Qualitative reasoning and spatio-temporal continuity / Ernest Davis
• A qualitative trajectory calculus to reason about moving point objects / Matthias Delafontaine ... [et al.]
• Methodologies for qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning application design / Carl Schultz, Robert Amor, Hans W. Guesgen
• Enriching the qualitative spatial reasoning system RCC8 / Ahed Alboody, Florence Sedes, Jordi Inglada
• A region-based ontology of the brain ventricular system and its relation to schizophrenia / Paulo Santos ... [et al.]
• Explanation generation over temporal interval algebra / Debasis Mitra, Florent Launay
• Reasoning about space, actions, and change: a paradigm for applications of spatial reasoning / Mehul Bhatt
• Integrated ontologies for spatial scene descriptions / Sotirios Batsakis, Euripides G.M. Petrakis
• Qualitative spatial reasoning for applications: new challenges and the sparQ toolbox / Diedrich Wolter, Jan Oliver Wallgrün
• On the representation and recognition of temporal patterns of activities in smart environments / Fulvio Mastrogiovanni ... [et al.]
• Topical and spatio-temporal search over distributed online databases / Nikos Zotos, Sofia Stamou.