Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Keynote Lecture

   1. A Geographer Looks at Spatial Information Theory

      • Michael F. Goodchild

      Pages 1-13

3. Geospatial Ontology and Ontologies I

   1. True Grid

      • Barry Smith

      Pages 14-27

   2. A Taxonomy of Granular Partitions

      • Thomas Bittner, Barry Smith

      Pages 28-43

   3. A Geometric Theory of Vague Boundaries Based on Supervaluation

      • Lars Kulik

      Pages 44-59

4. Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning I

   1. When Tables Tell It All: Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning Based on Linear Orderings

      • Gérard Ligozat

      Pages 60-75

   2. Computational structure in three-valued nearness relations

      • Matt Duckham, Michael Worboys

      Pages 76-91

   3. Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Continuity

      • Shyamanta M. Hazarika, Anthony G. Cohn

      Pages 92-107

5. Formalizations of Human Spatial Cognition

   1. Application of Supervaluation Semantics to Vaguely Defined Spatial Concepts

      • Brandon Bennett

      Pages 108-123

   2. Spatial and Cognitive Simulation with Multi-agent Systems

      • Andrew U. Frank, Steffen Bittner, Martin Raubal

      Pages 124-139

   3. A Virtual Test Bed in Support of Cognitively-Aware Geomatics Technologies

      • Geoffrey Edwards

      Pages 140-155

6. Space, Cognition, and Information Systems I

   1. Evaluating the Usability of the Scale Metaphor for Querying Semantic Spaces

      • Sara Irina Fabrikant

      Pages 156-172

   2. A Semantic Map as Basis for the Decision Process in the www Navigation

      • Hartwig Hochmair, Andrew U. Frank

      Pages 173-188

   3. Pragmatism and Spatial Layout Design

      • Susan L. Epstein, Bernard Moulin, Walid Chaker, Janice Glasgow, Jeremi Gancet

      Pages 189-205

7. Navigation: Human and Machine Approaches

   1. Spatial Frames of Reference Used in Identifying Direction of Movement: An Unexpected Turn

      • Christy R. Miller, Gary L. Allen

      Pages 206-216

   2. The Role of a Self-Reference System in Spatial Navigation

      • M. Jeanne Sholl

      Pages 217-232

   3. The Utility of Global Representations in a Cognitive Map

      • M. E. Jefferies, W.K Yeap

      Pages 233-246

8. Keynote Lecture

   1. How Spoken Language and Signed Language Structure Space Differently

      • Leonard Talmy

      Pages 247-262

9. Language and Space

   1. Two Path Preposition: Along and Past

      • Christian Kray, Jörg Baus, Hubert Zimmer, Harry Speiser, Antonio Krüger

      Pages 263-277

   2. Ambiguity in Acquiring Spatial Representation from Descriptions Compared to Depictions: The Role of Spatial Orientation

      • Holly A. Taylor, David H. Uttal, Joan Fisher, Marshall Mazepa

      Pages 278-291

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.

• Navigation
• Spatial information theory
• cognition
• geographic information systems (GIS)
• information system
• information theory
• ontology
• spatial cognition
• spatial data representation
• spatial information processing
• spatial information systems
• spation temporal information
• data structures

• Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

  Daniel R. Montello

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