Spatial Information Theory: 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007 Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007 Proceedings Book

Cultural Studies
Progress on Yindjibarndi Ethnophysiography   David M. Mark   Andrew G. Turk   David Stea     1
Study of Cultural Impacts on Location Judgments in Eastern China   Danqing Xiao   Yu Liu     20
Cross-Cultural Similarities in Topological Reasoning   Marco Ragni   Bolormaa Tseden   Markus Knauff     32
Thalassographein: Representing Maritime Spaces in Ancient Greece   Jean-Marie Kowalski   Christophe Claramunt   Arnaud Zucker     47
Semantics
From Top-Level to Domain Ontologies: Ecosystem Classifications as a Case Study   Thomas Bittner     61
Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of 'Place'   Brandon Bennett   Pragya Agarwal     78
Spatial Semantics in Difference Spaces   Vlad Tanasescu     96
Similarity
Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations   Angela Schwering     116
Affordance-Based Similarity Measurement for Entity Types   Krzysztof Janowicz   Martin Raubal     133
An Image-Schematic Account of Spatial Categories   Werner Kuhn     152
Mapping and Representation
Specifying Essential Features of Street Networks   Simon Scheider   Daniel Schulz     169
Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot   Jochen Schmidt   Chee K. Wong   Wai K. Yeap     186
Spatial Mapping and Map Exploitation: A Bio-inspired Engineering Perspective   Michael Milford   Gordon Wyeth     203
Scale-Dependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing   Martin Kada     222
Perception and Cognition
Degradation in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition When Using Automatic Navigation Systems   Avi Parush   Shir Ahuvia-Pick   Ido Erev     238
Stories as Route Descriptions   Volker Paelke   Birgit Elias     255
Three Sampling Methods for Visibility Measures of Landscape Perception   Gerd Weitkamp   Arnold Bregt   Ron van Lammeren   Agnes van den Berg     268
Reasoning and Algorithms
Reasoning on Spatial Semantic Integrity Constraints   Stephan Mas     285
Spatial Reasoning with a Hole   Max J. Egenhofer   Maria Vasardani     303
Geospatial Cluster Tessellation Through the Complete Order-k Voronoi Diagrams   Ickjai Lee   Reece Pershouse   Kyungmi Lee     321
Drawing a Figure in a Two-Dimensional Plane for a Qualitative Representation   Shou Kumokawa   Kazuko Takahashi     337
Navigation and Landmarks
Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts   Alexander Klippel   Daniel R. Montello     354
A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions   Kai-Florian Richter     373
Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the 'Drop-Off' Orientation Task   David Peebles   Clare Davies   Rodrigo Mora     390
Uncertainty and Imperfection
Data Quality Ontology: An Ontology for Imperfect Knowledge   Andrew U. Frank     406
Triangulation of Gradient Polygons: A Spatial Data Model for Categorical Fields   Barry J. Kronenfeld     421
Relations in Mathematical Morphology with Applications to Graphs and Rough Sets   John G. Stell     438
Author Index     455