Spatial Information Theory

1. Front Matter

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2. Maps and Navigation

   1. How Do Decision Time and Realism Affect Map-Based Decision Making?

      • Jan Wilkening, Sara Irina Fabrikant

      Pages 1-19

   2. Towards Cognitively Plausible Spatial Representations for Sketch Map Alignment

      • Malumbo Chipofya, Jia Wang, Angela Schwering

      Pages 20-39

   3. Scalable Navigation Support for Crowds: Personalized Guidance via Augmented Signage

      • Fathi Hamhoum, Christian Kray

      Pages 40-56

   4. Information on the Consequence of a Move and Its Use for Route Improvisation Support

      • Takeshi Shirabe

      Pages 57-72

   5. The Effect of Activity on Relevance and Granularity for Navigation

      • Stephen C. Hirtle, Sabine Timpf, Thora Tenbrink

      Pages 73-89

   6. I Can Tell by the Way You Use Your Walk: Real-Time Classification of Wayfinding Performance

      • Makoto Takemiya, Toru Ishikawa

      Pages 90-109

3. Spatial Change

   1. From Video to RCC8: Exploiting a Distance Based Semantics to Stabilise the Interpretation of Mereotopological Relations

      • Muralikrishna Sridhar, Anthony G. Cohn, David C. Hogg

      Pages 110-125

   2. Decentralized Reasoning about Gradual Changes of Topological Relationships between Continuously Evolving Regions

      • Lin-Jie Guan, Matt Duckham

      Pages 126-147

   3. Spatio-temporal Evolution as Bigraph Dynamics

      • John Stell, Géraldine Del Mondo, Remy Thibaud, Christophe Claramunt

      Pages 148-167

4. Spatial Reasoning

   1. On Optimal Arrangements of Binary Sensors

      • Parvin Asadzadeh, Lars Kulik, Egemen Tanin, Anthony Wirth

      Pages 168-187

   2. A Hybrid Geometric-Qualitative Spatial Reasoning System and Its Application in GIS

      • Giorgio De Felice, Paolo Fogliaroni, Jan Oliver Wallgrün

      Pages 188-209

   3. CLP(QS): A Declarative Spatial Reasoning Framework

      • Mehul Bhatt, Jae Hee Lee, Carl Schultz

      Pages 210-230

5. Spatial Cognition and Social Aspects of Space

   1. The Social Connection in Mental Representations of Space: Explicit and Implicit Evidence

      • Holly A. Taylor, Qi Wang, Stephanie A. Gagnon, Keith B. Maddox, Tad T. Brunyé

      Pages 231-244

   2. Revisiting the Plasticity of Human Spatial Cognition

      • Linda Abarbanell, Rachel Montana, Peggy Li

      Pages 245-263

   3. Linguistic and Cultural Universality of the Concept of Sense-of-Direction

      • Daniel R. Montello, Danqing Xiao

      Pages 264-282

   4. Towards a Formalization of Social Spaces for Socially Aware Robots

      • Felix Lindner, Carola Eschenbach

      Pages 283-303

6. Perception and Spatial Semantics

   1. Finite Relativist Geometry Grounded in Perceptual Operations

      • Simon Scheider, Werner Kuhn

      Pages 304-327

   2. Linking Spatial Haptic Perception to Linguistic Representations: Assisting Utterances for Tactile-Map Explorations

      • Kris Lohmann, Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel

      Pages 328-349

   3. Analyzing the Spatial-Semantic Interaction of Points of Interest in Volunteered Geographic Information

      • Christoph Mülligann, Krzysztof Janowicz, Mao Ye, Wang-Chien Lee

      Pages 350-370

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.

• geographic information
• map-based decision making
• route improvisation support
• social spaces
• spatial haptic perception
• spatial information processing
• spatiotemporal information
• data structures

• University of Maine, Orono, USA

  Max Egenhofer, Nicholas Giudice, Reinhard Moratz, Michael Worboys

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