Research Catalog

Title

Spatial information theory : a theoretical basis for GIS : European conference, COSIT'93, Marciana Marina, Elba Island, Italy, September 19-22, 1993 : proceedings / Andrew U. Frank, Irene Campari (eds.).

Author

COSIT'93 (1993 : Marciana Marina, Italy)

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Frank, Andrew U.
• Campari, I. (Irene)

Description

xi, 477 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.

Series Statement

Lecture notes in computer science ; 716

Uniform Title

Lecture notes in computer science ; 716.

Subjects

• Space perception > Congresses
• Geographical perception > Congresses
• Geographic information systems > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Marciana Marina (1993)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

A Cognitive Model for the Process of Multimodal, Incremental Route Descriptions / Wolfgang Maass -- Cognitive Maps, Cognitive Collages, and Spatial Mental Models / Barbara Tversky -- A Logical Framework for Reasoning about Space / Laure Vieu -- Maintaining Qualitative Spatial Knowledge / Daniel Hernandez -- Qualitative Triangulation for Spatial Reasoning / Gerard F. Ligozat -- Enhancing Qualitative Spatial Reasoning -- Combining Orientation and Distance / Kai Zimmermann -- Map Semantics / Ian Pratt -- Development of a Cartographic Language / J. Raul Ramirez -- Spatial Queries and Data Models / Leila De Floriani, Paola Marzano and Enrico Puppo -- Topological Querying of Multiple Map Layers / Sylvia de Hoop, Peter van Oosterom and Martien Molenaar -- Towards a Conceptual Data Model for the Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Processes: The Example of the Search for Optimal Grazing Strategies / Jean-Paul Cheylan and Sylvie Lardon -- The Cognitive Structure of Space: An Analysis of Temporal Sequences / Stephen C. Hirtle, Thea Ghiselli-Crippa and Michael B. Spring -- Hierarchies of Space and Time / Peter A. Whigham -- The Voronoi Model and Cultural Space: Applications to the Social Sciences and Humanities / Geoffrey Edwards -- Interaction with GIS Attribute Data Based on Categorical Coverage / Gary S. Volta and Max J. Egenhofer -- The Semantics of Relations in 2D Space Using Representative Points: Spatial Indexes / Dimitris Papadias and Timos Sellis -- Computing Visibility Maps on a Digital Terrain Model / Leila De Floriani and Paola Magillo -- Toward a Theoretical Framework for Geographic Entity Types / David M. Mark -- Land, Space and Spatial Planning in Three Time Regions / Albert Z. Guttenberg -- Geographic and Manipulable Space in Two Tamil Linguistic Systems / Eric Pederson -- Scale and Multiple Psychologies of Space / Daniel R. Montello -- GIS and Modeling Prerequisites / Arthur Getis -- A Map Editing Kernel Implementation: Application to Multiple Scale Display / Philippe Rigaux, Michel Scholl and Agnes Voisard -- Metaphors Create Theories for Users / Werner Kuhn -- Using a Landscape Metaphor to Represent a Corpus of Documents / Matthew Chalmers -- From Interface to Interplace: The Spatial Environment as a Medium for Interaction / Thomas Erickson -- A Keystroke Level Analysis of Manual Map Digitizing / Peter Haunold and Werner Kuhn -- Critical Issues in the Evaluation of Spatial Autocorrelation / Yue-Hong Chou -- A Directional Path Distance Model for Raster Distance Mapping / Cixiang Zhan, Sudhakar Menon and Peng Gao -- Symbolic Spatial Reasoning in Object Shapes for Qualitative Reasoning / Erland Jungert -- Reasoning About Spatial Structure in Landscapes with Geographic Information Systems / Claude W. Saunders.

ISBN

• 3540572074
• 9783540572077
• 0387572074
• 9780387572079

LCCN

93030185

OCLC

• ocm28676677
• 28676677
• SCSB-9126393

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library