Qualitative Representation of Spatial Knowledge

This book develops, for the first time, a qualitative model for the representation of spatial knowledge based only on locative relations between the objects involved. The core of this book is devoted to the study of qualitative inference methods that take into account the rich structure of space. Th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hernandez, Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
Series:Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book develops, for the first time, a qualitative model for the representation of spatial knowledge based only on locative relations between the objects involved. The core of this book is devoted to the study of qualitative inference methods that take into account the rich structure of space. These methods can be applied to quite a number of areas characterized by uncertain or incomplete knowledge, as for example geographic information systems, robot control, computer-aided architectural design, and natural language information systems
Physical Description:XII, 208 p online resource
ISBN:9783540484257