LEADER 05249nam 22008295 450 001 9910484418603321 005 20251226195321.0 010 $a3-540-74788-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-540-74788-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000490996 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000320152 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11242674 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000320152 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10348248 035 $a(PQKB)11224188 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-540-74788-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3061785 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6806147 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6806147 035 $a(OCoLC)167471619 035 $a(PPN)123164893 035 $a(BIP)34165005 035 $a(BIP)14494851 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000490996 100 $a20100301d2007 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpatial Information Theory $e8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007, Proceedings /$fedited by Stephan Winter, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik, Ben Kuipers 205 $a1st ed. 2007. 210 1$aBerlin, Heidelberg :$cSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :$cImprint: Springer,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 455 p.) 225 1 $aInformation Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI,$x2946-1642 ;$v4736 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a3-540-74786-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCultural Studies -- Progress on Yindjibarndi Ethnophysiography -- Study of Cultural Impacts on Location Judgments in Eastern China -- Cross-Cultural Similarities in Topological Reasoning -- Thalassographeïn: Representing Maritime Spaces in Ancient Greece -- Semantics -- From Top-Level to Domain Ontologies: Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study -- Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of ?Place? -- Spatial Semantics in Difference Spaces -- Similarity -- Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations -- Affordance-Based Similarity Measurement for Entity Types -- An Image-Schematic Account of Spatial Categories -- Mapping and Representation -- Specifying Essential Features of Street Networks -- Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot -- Spatial Mapping and Map Exploitation: A Bio-inspired Engineering Perspective -- Scale-Dependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing -- Perception and Cognition -- Degradation in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition When Using Automatic Navigation Systems -- Stories as Route Descriptions -- Three Sampling Methods for Visibility Measures of Landscape Perception -- Reasoning and Algorithms -- Reasoning on Spatial Semantic Integrity Constraints -- Spatial Reasoning with a Hole -- Geospatial Cluster Tessellation Through the Complete Order-k Voronoi Diagrams -- Drawing a Figure in a Two-Dimensional Plane for a Qualitative Representation -- Navigation and Landmarks -- Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts -- A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions -- Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the ?Drop-Off? Orientation Task -- Uncertainty and Imperfection -- Data Quality Ontology: AnOntology for Imperfect Knowledge -- Triangulation of Gradient Polygons: A Spatial Data Model for Categorical Fields -- Relations in Mathematical Morphology with Applications to Graphs and Rough Sets. 330 $aThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2007. The 27 revised full papers were carefully reviewed from 102 submissions, and they are organized in topical sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, mapping and representation, perception and cognition, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and landmarks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection. 410 0$aInformation Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI,$x2946-1642 ;$v4736 606 $aArtificial intelligence$xData processing 606 $aArtificial intelligence 606 $aComputer science 606 $aDatabase management 606 $aPhysical geography 606 $aData Science 606 $aArtificial Intelligence 606 $aTheory of Computation 606 $aDatabase Management 606 $aModels of Computation 606 $aPhysical Geography 615 0$aArtificial intelligence$xData processing. 615 0$aArtificial intelligence. 615 0$aComputer science. 615 0$aDatabase management. 615 0$aPhysical geography. 615 14$aData Science. 615 24$aArtificial Intelligence. 615 24$aTheory of Computation. 615 24$aDatabase Management. 615 24$aModels of Computation. 615 24$aPhysical Geography. 676 $a910.285 702 $aWinter$b Stephan$f1963- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484418603321 996 $aSpatial Information Theory$9772471 997 $aUNINA