Overview
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David M. Mark
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National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
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Andrew U. Frank
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National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Department of Surveying Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, USA
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Cartographic Perspectives
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Formal Treatment of Space in Mathematics
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Front Matter
Pages 309-312
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- Kelly K. L. Chan, C. Dana Tomlin
Pages 351-360
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User Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction
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Front Matter
Pages 415-417
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- Werner Kuhn, Andrew U. Frank
Pages 419-434
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- J. F. Raper, M. S. Bundock
Pages 449-475
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Back Matter
Pages 515-519
About this book
This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space," held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July 8-20, 1990. The NATO ASI marked a stage in a two-year research project at the U. S. National Center for Geographic Infonnation and Analysis (NCOIA). In 1987, the U. S. National Science Foundation issued a solicitation for proposals to establish the NCGIA-and one element of that solicitation was a call for research on a "fundamental theory of spatial relations". We felt that such a fundamental theory could be searched for in mathematics (geometry, topology) or in cognitive science, but that a simultaneous search in these two seemingly disparate research areas might produce novel results. Thus, as part of the NCGIA proposal from a consortium consisting of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Maine, we proposed that the second major Research Initiative (two year, multidisciplinary research project) of the NCOIA would address these issues, and would be called "Languages of Spatial Relations" The grant to establish the NCOIA was awarded to our consortium late in 1988.
Editors and Affiliations
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National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
David M. Mark
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National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Department of Surveying Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, USA
Andrew U. Frank