Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780585283227
Subjects: Knowledge representation (Information theory); Qualitative reasoning; Artificial intelligence
Description: This work examines current research in qualitative reasoning about space and time, focusing on representational and computational issues. It emphasizes major lines of development in this multifaceted area and shows some common ground of spatial and temporal aspects of qualitative reasoning.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Front Matter; Spatial Representation and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence; Reasoning about Time and Actions in Artificial Intelligence: Major Issues; Spatial Entities; Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Spatial Relations About Regions; Spatial Ontology: A Geographical Information Point of View; Language, Spatial Cognition, and Vision; Actions and Events in Interval Temporal Logic; Probabilistic Projection in Planning; Underlying Semantics for Action and Change with Ramification; Space, Time, and Movement; Back Matter