Spatial Information Theory

Author : Andrew U. Frank,Irene Campari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 500 pages
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Release : 1993-09-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540572074

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Spatial Information Theory by Andrew U. Frank,Irene Campari Pdf

This volume collects the papers presented at the European Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '93) held on the island of Elba, Italy, inSeptember 1993. Spatial information theory includes disciplinary topics and interdisciplinary issues dealing with the conceptualization and formalization of large-scale (geographic) space. It contributes towards a consistent theoretical basis for Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Geographic information systems are widely used in administration,planning, and science in many different countries, and for a wide variety ofapplications. Research results which relevant for GIS are distributed between many disciplines and contacts between researchers have been limited. At the same time, the development of GIS has been hinderedby the lack of a sound theoretical base. This conference was intended to help remedies these problems.

Author : Kathleen Stewart Hornsby,Christophe Claramunt,Michel Denis,Gérard Ligozat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642038327

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Spatial Information Theory by Kathleen Stewart Hornsby,Christophe Claramunt,Michel Denis,Gérard Ligozat Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew U. Frank,Werner Kuhn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1074 pages
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Release : 1995-09-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540603921

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Spatial Information Theory by Andrew U. Frank,Werner Kuhn Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT'95, held near Vienna, Austria, in September 1995. Spatial Information Theory brings together three fields of research of paramount importance for geographic information systems technology, namely spatial reasoning, representation of space, and human understanding of space. The book contains 36 fully revised papers selected from a total of 78 submissions and gives a comprehensive state-of-the-art report on this exciting multidisciplinary - and highly interdisciplinary - area of research and development.

Author : Stephen C. Hirtle,Andrew U. Frank
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 530 pages
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Release : 1997-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540636234

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Spatial Information Theory A Theoretical Basis for GIS by Stephen C. Hirtle,Andrew U. Frank Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT'97, held in Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania, USA, in October 1997. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 66 submissions. Also included are seven posters. The volume is divided into sections on representations of change, structuring of space, boundaries and gradations, topological models of space, formal models of space, cognitive aspects of spatial acquisition, novel use of spatial information, wayfinding and map interpretation, representations of spatial concepts, new approaches to spatial information.

Author : Thora Tenbrink,John Stell,Anthony Galton,Zena Wood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319017907

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Spatial Information Theory by Thora Tenbrink,John Stell,Anthony Galton,Zena Wood Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2013, held in Scarborough, UK, in September 2013. The 28 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 full paper submissions. The following topics are addressed: spatial change, wayfinding and assistance, representing spatial data, handling language data, spatial language and computation, spatial ontology, spatial reasoning and representation.

Author : Daniel R. Montello
Publisher : Springer
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540454243

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Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science by Daniel R. Montello Pdf

The 5th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2001, took place at the Inn at Morro Bay, California, USA, September 19 23, 2001. COSIT grew out of a series of workshops/NATO Advanced Study Institutes/NSF Specialist Meetings during the 1990s concerned with theoretical and applied aspects of representing large scale space, particularly geographic or environmental space (this history is elaborated in the prefaces of previous COSIT proceedings). These are spaces in which (and on which) human action takes place, and which are represented and processed in digital geographic information systems. In these early meetings, the need for well founded theories of spatial information representation and processing was identified, particularly theories based on cognition and on computation. This concern for theory provided an early foundation for the newly emerging field of geographic information science. COSIT is not backed by any particular scientific society but is organized as an independent enterprise. The conference series was established in 1993 as an interdisciplinary biennial European conference on the representation and processing of large scale spatial information after a successful international conference on the topic had been organized by Andrew Frank et al. in Pisa in 1992 (frequently referred to as "COSIT 0"). After two successful European COSIT conferences with strong North American participation (COSIT ’93: Island of Elba, Italy; COSIT ’95: Semmering, Austria), COSIT ’97 moved across the pond to the United States, and was held in the Laurel Highlands, Pennsylvania.

Author : Max J. Egenhofer,Nicholas Giudice,Reinhard Moratz,Michael Worboys
Publisher : Springer
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642231964

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Spatial Information Theory by Max J. Egenhofer,Nicholas Giudice,Reinhard Moratz,Michael Worboys Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2011, held in Belfast, ME, USA, in September 2011. The 23 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on maps and navigation, spatial change, spatial reasoning, spatial cognition and social aspects of space, perception and spatial semantics, and space and language.

Author : Sara Irina Fabrikant,Martin Raubal,Michela Bertolotto,Clare Davies,Scott Freundschuh,Scott Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319233741

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Spatial Information Theory by Sara Irina Fabrikant,Martin Raubal,Michela Bertolotto,Clare Davies,Scott Freundschuh,Scott Bell Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2015, held in Santa Fee, NM, USA, in October 2015. The 22 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 full paper submissions. The following topics are addressed: formalizing and modeling space-time, qualitative spatio-temporal reasoning and representation, language and space, signs, images, maps, and other representations of space, navigations by humans and machines.

Author : Werner Kuhn,Michael F. Worboys
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540201489

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Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science by Werner Kuhn,Michael F. Worboys Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2003, held at Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland, in September 2003. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies of space and time, reasoning about distances and directions, spatial reasoning - shapes and diagrams, computational approaches, reasoning about regions, vagueness, visualization, and landmarks and wayfinding.

Author : Werner Kuhn,Michael F. Worboys,Sabine Timpf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540399230

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Spatial Information Theory. Foundations of Geographic Information Science by Werner Kuhn,Michael F. Worboys,Sabine Timpf Pdf

COSIT,theseriesofConferencesonSpatialInformationTheory,hasbeenaround for more than ten years. Its hallmarks are a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue between computational and human perspectives on spatio-temporal information and a thorough review process that selects the best papers while giving all - thors detailed feedback on how to develop their work. A clear pro?le of the COSIT community has emerged from the series of conference proceedings, all published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and from the per- nent web site at http://www. cosit. info, containing links to the conference web sites and proceedings, a history and program of the series, an impact study, interviews with participants, and pictures. The proceedings of this sixth conference provide ample evidence that COSIT is healthy and maturing, while retaining its youth. Out of the 61 submissions, the program committee selected 26 papers for presentation, in discussions based on at least three double-blind reviews and one or more meta-review from PC members for each paper. Classical COSIT themes, such as spatial reasoning (about distances and directions, regions and shapes) or vagueness are being f- ther re?ned; topics like way?nding and landmarks are boosted by new synergies betweencognitiveandcomputationalapproaches;andthestudyofontologiesfor space and time, a subject since the ?rst COSIT, is gaining more depth.

Author : C. Freksa,David M. Mark
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-08-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540663652

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Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science by C. Freksa,David M. Mark Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT '99, held in Stade, Germany, in August 1999. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The book is divided into topical sections on landmarks and navigation, route directions, abstraction and spatial hierarchies, spatial reasoning calculi, ontology of space, visual representation and reasoning, maps and routes, and granularity and qualitative abstraction.

Author : Stephan Winter,Matt Duckham,Lars Kulik,Ben Kuipers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540747888

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Spatial Information Theory by Stephan Winter,Matt Duckham,Lars Kulik,Ben Kuipers Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen C. Hirtle,Andrew U. Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3662171554

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Spatial Information Theory a Theoretical Basis for GIS by Stephen C. Hirtle,Andrew U. Frank Pdf

Author : Michael Goodchild,Max J. Egenhofer,Robin Fegeas,Cliff Kottman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461551898

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Interoperating Geographic Information Systems by Michael Goodchild,Max J. Egenhofer,Robin Fegeas,Cliff Kottman Pdf

Geographic information systems have developed rapidly in the past decade, and are now a major class of software, with applications that include infrastructure maintenance, resource management, agriculture, Earth science, and planning. But a lack of standards has led to a general inability for one GIS to interoperate with another. It is difficult for one GIS to share data with another, or for people trained on one system to adapt easily to the commands and user interface of another. Failure to interoperate is a problem at many levels, ranging from the purely technical to the semantic and the institutional. Interoperating Geographic Information Systems is about efforts to improve the ability of GISs to interoperate, and has been assembled through a collaboration between academic researchers and the software vendor community under the auspices of the US National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and the Open GIS Consortium Inc. It includes chapters on the basic principles and the various conceptual frameworks that the research community has developed to think about the problem. Other chapters review a wide range of applications and the experiences of the authors in trying to achieve interoperability at a practical level. Interoperability opens enormous potential for new ways of using GIS and new mechanisms for exchanging data, and these are covered in chapters on information marketplaces, with special reference to geographic information. Institutional arrangements are also likely to be profoundly affected by the trend towards interoperable systems, and nowhere is the impact of interoperability more likely to cause fundamental change than in education, as educators address the needs of a new generation of GIS users with access to a new generation of tools. The book concludes with a series of chapters on education and institutional change. Interoperating Geographic Information Systems is suitable as a secondary text for graduate level courses in computer science, geography, spatial databases, and interoperability and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry, commerce and government.

Author : David F. Batten
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401730402

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Spatial Analysis of Interacting Economies by David F. Batten Pdf

6. 2 Basic Model Characteristics 185 6. 3 A Closed Model Approach to Interregional Estimation 189 7 Towards an Integrated System of Models for National and Regional Development 205 7. 1 Introduction 205 7. 2 In Search of a Framework for Integration 207 7. 3 National Development Scenarios 222 7. 4 The National-Regional Interlace 231 7. 5 Regional Development Scenarios 236 7. 6 Concluding Remarks 244 Appendixes 253 A Basic Microstate Descriptions 253 B Incomplete Prior Information: A Simple Example 257 C Computing Capital Coefficients and Turnpike Solutions: The DYNIO Package 259 D Minimizing Information Losses in Simple Aggregation: Two Test Problems 274 E Computing Interregional and Intersectoral Flows: 276 References 287 Index 305 vi LIST OF FIGURES 1. 1 A Three-Dimensional Guide to Later Chapters 12 2. 1 Historical Development of the Entropy Concept 32 2. 2 Selected Applications of Information Theory to Input-Output Analysis and Interaction Modelling 48 3. 1 The Bose-Einstein Analogy 58 5. 1 The Dog-Leg Input-Output Table 159 7. 1 A General Multilevel Social System 219 7. 2 The Hierarchical System of Models 219 7. 3 Choice of Production Techniques 230 7. 4 The National-Regional Interface 235 7. 5 A Sequential Compromise Procedure 243 7. 6 The Integrated Modelling System 246 vii LIST OF TABLES 3. 1 Production-Constrained Microstate Descriptions 59 3. 2 Production-Constrained Entropy Formulae 62 3. 3 Production-Constrained Solutions 65 3. 4 Doubly-Constrained Solutions 73 4. 1 The Static Input-Output Table 85 4.