9. COSIT 2009: Aber Wrac'h, France

Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, Christophe Claramunt, Michel Denis, Gérard Ligozat (Eds.): Spatial Information Theory, 9th International Conference, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21-25, 2009, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5756 Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-03831-0

Cognitive Processing and Models for Spatial Cognition

Daniel R. Montello:
A Conceptual Model of the Cognitive Processing of Environmental Distance Information. 1-17
Angela Schwering, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Ulf Krumnack, Helmar Gust:
Spatial Cognition of Geometric Figures in the Context of Proportional Analogies. 18-35
Clare Davies:
Are Places Concepts? Familarity and Expertise Effects in Neighborhood Cognition. 36-50

Benjamin Adams, Martin Raubal:
A Metric Conceptual Space Algebra. 51-68
Simon Scheider, Krzysztof Janowicz, Werner Kuhn:
Grounding Geographic Categories in the Meaningful Environment. 69-87
Brent Hecht, Emily Moxley:
Terabytes of Tobler: Evaluating the First Law in a Massive, Domain-Neutral Representation of World Knowledge. 88-105

Jean-François Condotta, Souhila Kaci, Pierre Marquis, Nicolas Schwind:
Merging Qualitative Constraint Networks Defined on Different Qualitative Formalisms. 106-123
Yohei Kurata:
Semi-automated Derivation of Conceptual Neighborhood Graphs of Topological Relations. 124-140
Jan Oliver Wallgrün:
Exploiting Qualitative Spatial Constraints for Multi-hypothesis Topological Map Learning. 141-158
Maria Vasardani, Max J. Egenhofer:
Comparing Relations with a Multi-holed Region. 159-176

Alexander Klippel, Rui Li:
The Endpoint Hypothesis: A Topological-Cognitive Assessment of Geographic Scale Movement Patterns. 177-194
Simone Garlandini, Sara Irina Fabrikant:
Evaluating the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Visual Variables for Geographic Information Visualization. 195-211
Mathieu Simonnet, Dan Jacobson, Stephane Vieilledent, Jacques Tisseau:
SeaTouch: A Haptic and Auditory Maritime Environment for Non Visual Cognitive Mapping of Blind Sailors. 212-226

Maximillian Dupenois, Antony Galton:
Assigning Footprints to Dot Sets: An Analytical Survey. 227-244
Falko Schmid:
Mental Tectonics - Rendering Consistent µMaps. 245-262
John G. Stell:
To Be and Not To Be: 3-Valued Relations on Graphs. 263-279
Takeshi Shirabe:
Map Algebraic Characterization of Self-adapting Neighborhoods. 280-294

Hannah M. Dee, David C. Hogg, Anthony G. Cohn:
Scene Modelling and Classification Using Learned Spatial Relations. 295-311
Paolo Fogliaroni, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Eliseo Clementini, Francesco Tarquini, Diedrich Wolter:
A Qualitative Approach to Localization and Navigation Based on Visibility Information. 312-329
Toru Ishikawa, Tetsuo Yamazaki:
Showing Where To Go by Maps or Pictures: An Empirical Case Study at Subway Exits. 330-341

Helen Couclelis:
The Abduction of Geographic Information Science: Transporting Spatial Reasoning to the Realm of Purpose and Design. 342-356
Lisa Walton, Michael F. Worboys:
An Algebraic Approach to Image Schemas for Geographic Space. 357-370
Mehul Bhatt, Frank Dylla, Joana Hois:
Spatio-terminological Inference for the Design of Ambient Environments. 371-391

Didier G. Leibovici:
Defining Spatial Entropy from Multivariate Distributions of Co-occurrences. 392-404
Joice Seleme Mota, Gilberto Câmara, Maria Isabel Sobral Escada, Olga Regina Fradico de Oliveira Bittencourt, Leila Maria Garcia Fonseca, Lúbia Vinhas:
Case-Based Reasoning for Eliciting the Evolution of Geospatial Objects. 405-420
Barbara Hofer, Andrew U. Frank:
Composing Models of Geographic Physical Processes. 421-435

Martin Raubal, Stephan Winter, Christopher Dorr:
Decentralized Time Geography for Ad-Hoc Collaborative Planning. 436-452
Kai-Florian Richter:
Adaptable Path Planning in Regionalized Environments. 453-470
Karl Rehrl, Sven Leitinger, Georg Gartner, Felix Ortag:
An Analysis of Direction and Motion Concepts in Verbal Descriptions of Route Choices. 471-488
Alasdair Turner:
The Role of Angularity in Route Choice. 489-504