Qualitative Spatial Reasoning with Topological Information
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783540433460
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Knowledge representation (Info; Computers; Computers - General Information; Computer Books: General; Knowledge representation (Information theory); Artificial Intelligence - General; General; Information Theory; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Space perception
First sentence: Artificial Intelligence is a highly diversified discipline with influences from different "classical" areas such as Computer Science, Logic, Engineering, Psychology, and Philosophy.
Description: Spatial knowledge representation and reasoning with spatial knowledge are relevant issues for many application areas such as robotics, geographical information systems, and computer vision. Exceeding purely quantitative approaches, more recently initiated qualitative approaches allow for dealing with spatial information on a more abstract level that is closer to the way humans think and speak. Starting out with the qualitative, topological constraint calculus RCC8 proposed by Randell, Cui, and Cohn, this work presents answers to a variety of open questions regarding RCC8. The open issues concerning computational properties are solved by exploiting a broad variety of results and methods from logic and theoretical computer science. Questions concerning practical performance are addressed by large-scale empirical computational experiments. The most impressive result is probably the complete classification of computational properties for all fragments of RCC8.
Notes: Lecture Notes in Computer Science