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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Spatial Representation and Reasoning
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Between Space and Time
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Back Matter
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About this book
The aim of Spatial and Temporal Reasoning is to give a picture of current research in this area focusing on both representational and computational issues. The picture emphasizes some major lines of development in this multifaceted, constantly growing area. The material in the book also shows some common ground and a novel combination of spatial and temporal aspects of qualitative reasoning.
Part I presents the overall scene. The chapter by Laure Vieu is on the state of the art in spatial representation and reasoning, and that by Alfonso Gerevini gives a similar survey on research in temporal reasoning. The specific contributions to these areas are then grouped in the two main parts. In Part II, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi examine the ontological status of spatial entities; Anthony Cohn, Brandon Bennett, John Gooday, and Nicholas Gotts present a detailed theory of reasoning with qualitative relations about regions; Andrew Frank discusses the spatial needs of geographical information systems; and Annette Herskovits focuses on the linguistic expression of spatial relations. In Part III, James Allen and George Ferguson describe an interval temporal logic for the representation of actions and events; Drew McDermott presents an efficient way of predicting the outcome of plan execution; and Erik Sandewall introduces a semantics based on transitions for assessing theories of action and change. In Part IV, Antony Galton's chapter stands clearly between the two areas of space and time and outlines the main coordinates of an integrated approach.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
Editors: Oliviero Stock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-28322-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4644-9Published: 31 August 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4716-3Published: 30 September 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-0-585-28322-7Published: 27 July 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 394
Topics: Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures and Information Theory, Computer Science, general