Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Space : International Conference GIS -- From Space to Territory: Theories and Methods of Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Pisa, Italy, September 21-23, 1992 Proceedings

"This volume collects the papers presented at the first international conference dedicated to spatial and temporal reasoning in geographic space, entitled "GIS: from space to territory - theories and methods of spatio-temporal reasoning". Within the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA, one of the supporters of the conference) the importance of spatial and temporal reasoning was recognized several years ago. Initial research found that spatial reasoning in geographic or large-scale space is different from spatial reasoning in small-scale space, as usually dealt with in robotics and expertsystems. Temporal reasoning has attracted interest in the artificial intelligence community. The volume also includes two invited papers: "Do people understand spatial concepts: the case of first-order primtives" by R.G. Golledge, and "Temporal databases" by R.T. Snodgrass."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE. Do people understand spatial concepts: The case of first-order primitives....Pages 1-21 Temporal databases....Pages 22-64 People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): Beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS....Pages 65-77 Time and space:An economic model....Pages 78-96 The changing language of and persisting patterns in the urban design of Edo/Tokyo....Pages 97-109 Toward a behavioral theory of regionalization....Pages 110-121 Descriptive modeling and prescriptive modeling in spatial data handling....Pages 122-135 The geometry of environmental knowledge....Pages 136-152 Spatial reasoning using symbolic arrays....Pages 153-161 Using orientation information for qualitative spatial reasoning....Pages 162-178 The observer's point of view: An extension of symbolic projections....Pages 179-195 Reasoning about gradual changes of topological relationships....Pages 196-219 The meaning of “neighbour”....Pages 220-235 A hierarchical triangle-based model for terrain description....Pages 236-251 A model for expressing topological integrity constraints in geographic databases....Pages 252-268 Encoding spatial information: The evidence for hierarchical processing....Pages 269-287 Is there a relationship between spatial cognition and environmental patterns?....Pages 288-304 Counter-intuitive geographic ‘facts’: Clues for spatial reasoning at geographic scales....Pages 305-317 Spatial-linguistic reasoning in LEI....Pages 318-327 User models and information theory in the design of a query interface for GIS....Pages 328-347 A conceptual model of wayfinding using multiple levels of abstraction....Pages 348-367 Towards acquiring spatio-temporal knowledge from sensor data....Pages 368-378 Automatically acquiring knowledge by digital maps in artificial intelligence planning techniques....Pages 379-401 Machine induction of geospatial knowledge....Pages 402-417 Treatment of qualitative geographic information in monitoring environmental pollution....Pages 418-431

This volume collects the papers presented at the first international conference dedicated to spatial and temporal reasoning in geographic space, entitled GIS: from space to territory - theories and methods of spatio-temporal reasoning.
Within the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA, one of the supporters of the conference)
the importance of spatial and temporal reasoning was recognized several years ago. Initial research found that spatial reasoning in geographic or large-scale space is different from spatial reasoning in small-scale space, as usually dealt with in robotics and expertsystems. Temporal reasoning has attracted interest in the artificial intelligence community.
The volume also includes two invited papers: Do people understand spatial concepts: the case of first-order primtives by R.G. Golledge, and Temporal databases by R.T. Snodgrass.