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Spatial Information Theory

8th International Conference, COSIT 2007 Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007 Proceedings

By: Stephan Winter (Editor), Matt Duckham (Editor), Lars Kulik (Editor)

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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.

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Non-Fiction Science Biology, Life Sciences Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography Human Geography Geographical Information Systems GIS & Remote Sensing Computing & I.T.Databases Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Computer Programming & Software Development

Algorithms & Data Structures Physical Geography & Topography Graphical & Digital Media Applications 3D Graphics & Modelling

Cultural Studies
Progress on Yindjibarndi Ethnophysiography	p. 1
Study of Cultural Impacts on Location Judgments in Eastern China	p. 20
Cross-Cultural Similarities in Topological Reasoning	p. 32
Thalassographein: Representing Maritime Spaces in Ancient Greece	p. 47
Semantics
From Top-Level to Domain Ontologies: Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study	p. 61
Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of 'Place'	p. 78
Spatial Semantics in Difference Spaces	p. 96
Similarity
Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations	p. 116
Affordance-Based Similarity Measurement for Entity Types	p. 133
An Image-Schematic Account of Spatial Categories	p. 152
Mapping and Representation
Specifying Essential Features of Street Networks	p. 169
Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot	p. 186
Spatial Mapping and Map Exploitation: A Bio-inspired Engineering Perspective	p. 203
Scale-Dependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing	p. 222
Perception and Cognition
Degradation in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition When Using Automatic Navigation Systems	p. 238
Stories as Route Descriptions	p. 255
Three Sampling Methods for Visibility Measures of Landscape Perception	p. 268
Reasoning and Algorithms
Reasoning on Spatial Semantic Integrity Constraints	p. 285
Spatial Reasoning with a Hole	p. 303
Geospatial Cluster Tessellation Through the Complete Order-k Voronoi Diagrams	p. 321
Drawing a Figure in a Two-Dimensional Plane for a Qualitative Representation	p. 337
Navigation and Landmarks
Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts	p. 354
A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions	p. 373
Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the 'Drop-Off' Orientation Task	p. 390
Uncertainty and Imperfection
Data Quality Ontology: An Ontology for Imperfect Knowledge	p. 406
Triangulation of Gradient Polygons: A Spatial Data Model for Categorical Fields	p. 421
Relations in Mathematical Morphology with Applications to Graphs and Rough Sets	p. 438
Author Index	p. 455
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Spatial Information Theory

8th International Conference, COSIT 2007 Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007 Proceedings

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