8. COSIT 2007: Melbourne, Australia

Stephan Winter, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik, Benjamin Kuipers (Eds.): Spatial Information Theory, 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4736 Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-74786-4

Cultural Studies

David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, David Stea:
Progress on Yindjibarndi Ethnophysiography. 1-19
Danqing Xiao, Yu Liu:
Study of Cultural Impacts on Location Judgments in Eastern China. 20-31
Marco Ragni, Bolormaa Tseden, Markus Knauff:
Cross-Cultural Similarities in Topological Reasoning. 32-46
Jean-Marie Kowalski, Christophe Claramunt, Arnaud Zucker:
Thalassographeïn: Representing Maritime Spaces in Ancient Greece. 47-60

Thomas Bittner:
From Top-Level to Domain Ontologies: Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study. 61-77
Brandon Bennett, Pragya Agarwal:
Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of 'Place'. 78-95
Vlad Tanasescu:
Spatial Semantics in Difference Spaces. 96-115

Angela Schwering:
Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations. 116-132
Krzysztof Janowicz, Martin Raubal:
Affordance-Based Similarity Measurement for Entity Types. 133-151
Werner Kuhn:
An Image-Schematic Account of Spatial Categories. 152-168

Simon Scheider, Daniel Schulz:
Specifying Essential Features of Street Networks. 169-185
Jochen Schmidt, Chee K. Wong, Wai K. Yeap:
Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot. 186-202
Michael Milford, Gordon Wyeth:
Spatial Mapping and Map Exploitation: A Bio-inspired Engineering Perspective. 203-221
Martin Kada:
Scale-Dependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing. 222-237

Avi Parush, Shir Ahuvia, Ido Erev:
Degradation in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition When Using Automatic Navigation Systems. 238-254
Volker Paelke, Birgit Elias:
Stories as Route Descriptions. 255-267
Gerd Weitkamp, Arnold Bregt, Ron van Lammeren, Agnes van den Berg:
Three Sampling Methods for Visibility Measures of Landscape Perception. 268-284

Stephan Mäs:
Reasoning on Spatial Semantic Integrity Constraints. 285-302
Max J. Egenhofer, Maria Vasardani:
Spatial Reasoning with a Hole. 303-320
Ickjai Lee, Reece Pershouse, Kyungmi Lee:
Geospatial Cluster Tessellation Through the Complete Order- k Voronoi Diagrams. 321-336
Shou Kumokawa, Kazuko Takahashi:
Drawing a Figure in a Two-Dimensional Plane for a Qualitative Representation. 337-353

Alexander Klippel, Daniel R. Montello:
Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts. 354-372
Kai-Florian Richter:
A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions. 373-389
David Peebles, Clare Davies, Rodrigo Mora:
Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the 'Drop-Off' Orientation Task. 390-405

Andrew U. Frank:
Data Quality Ontology: An Ontology for Imperfect Knowledge. 406-420
Barry J. Kronenfeld:
Triangulation of Gradient Polygons: A Spatial Data Model for Categorical Fields. 421-437
John G. Stell:
Relations in Mathematical Morphology with Applications to Graphs and Rough Sets. 438-454