Spatial Information Theory: 9th International Conference, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21-25, 2009, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (5756))

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2009 held in Aber Wrac'h, France in September 2009. The 30 revised full papers were carefully reviewed from 70 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on cognitive processing and models for spatial cognition, semantic modeling, spatial reasoning, spatial cognition, spatial knowledge, scene and visibility modeling, spatial modeling, events and processes, and route planning. Front Matter....Pages - A Conceptual Model of the Cognitive Processing of Environmental Distance Information....Pages 1-17 Spatial Cognition of Geometric Figures in the Context of Proportional Analogies....Pages 18-35 Are Places Concepts? Familarity and Expertise Effects in Neighborhood Cognition....Pages 36-50 A Metric Conceptual Space Algebra....Pages 51-68 Grounding Geographic Categories in the Meaningful Environment....Pages 69-87 Terabytes of Tobler: Evaluating the First Law in a Massive, Domain-Neutral Representation of World Knowledge....Pages 88-105 Merging Qualitative Constraint Networks Defined on Different Qualitative Formalisms....Pages 106-123 Semi-automated Derivation of Conceptual Neighborhood Graphs of Topological Relations....Pages 124-140 Exploiting Qualitative Spatial Constraints for Multi-hypothesis Topological Map Learning....Pages 141-158 Comparing Relations with a Multi-holed Region....Pages 159-176 The Endpoint Hypothesis: A Topological-Cognitive Assessment of Geographic Scale Movement Patterns....Pages 177-194 Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Visual Variables for Geographic Information Visualization....Pages 195-211 SeaTouch: A Haptic and Auditory Maritime Environment for Non Visual Cognitive Mapping of Blind Sailors....Pages 212-226 Assigning Footprints to Dot Sets: An Analytical Survey....Pages 227-244 Mental Tectonics - Rendering Consistent μMaps....Pages 245-262 To Be and Not To Be: 3-Valued Relations on Graphs....Pages 263-279 Map Algebraic Characterization of Self-adapting Neighborhoods....Pages 280-294 Scene Modelling and Classification Using Learned Spatial Relations....Pages 295-311 A Qualitative Approach to Localization and Navigation Based on Visibility Information....Pages 312-329 Showing Where To Go by Maps or Pictures: An Empirical Case Study at Subway Exits....Pages 330-341 The Abduction of Geographic Information Science: Transporting Spatial Reasoning to the Realm of Purpose and Design....Pages 342-356 An Algebraic Approach to Image Schemas for Geographic Space....Pages 357-370 Spatio-terminological Inference for the Design of Ambient Environments....Pages 371-391 Defining Spatial Entropy from Multivariate Distributions of Co-occurrences....Pages 392-404 Case-Based Reasoning for Eliciting the Evolution of Geospatial Objects....Pages 405-420 Composing Models of Geographic Physical Processes....Pages 421-435 Decentralized Time Geography for Ad-Hoc Collaborative Planning....Pages 436-452 Adaptable Path Planning in Regionalized Environments....Pages 453-470 An Analysis of Direction and Motion Concepts in Verbal Descriptions of Route Choices....Pages 471-488 The Role of Angularity in Route Choice....Pages 489-504 Back Matter....Pages - First established in 1993 with a conference in Elba, Italy, COSIT (the International C- ference on Spatial Information Theory) is widely acknowledged as one of the most - portant conferences for the field of spatial information theory. This conference series brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines for intensive scientific - changes centered on spatial information theory. COSIT submissions typically address research questions drawn from cognitive, perceptual, and environmental psychology, geography, spatial information science, computer science, artificial intelligence, cog- tive science, engineering, cognitive anthropology, linguistics, ontology, architecture, planning, and environmental design. Some of the topical areas include, for example, the cognitive structure of spatial knowledge; events and processes in geographic space; incomplete or imprecise spatial knowledge; languages of spatial relations; navigation by organisms and robots; ontology of space; communication of spatial information; and the social and cultural organization of space to name a few. This volume contains the papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2009, held in Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21–25, 2009. For COSIT 2009, 70 full paper submissions were received. These papers were carefully reviewed by an international Program Committee based on relevance to the conference, intellectual quality, scientific significance, novelty, relation to previously published literature, and clarity of presentation. After reviewing was completed, 30 papers were selected for presentation at the conference and appear in this volume. This number of papers reflects the high quality of submissions to COSIT this year. 1. Cognitive processing and models for spatial cognition 2. Semantic modeling 3. Spatial reasoning 4. Spatial cognition 5. Spatial knowledge 6. Scene and visibility modeling 7. Spatial modeling Events and processes 9. Rout planning.