Qualitative spatio-temporal representation and reasoning  trends and future directions /  [electronic resource] : 
Shyamanta M. Hazarika, editor. 
 - Hershey, Pa. :  IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),  c2012. 
 - electronic texts (403 p.) :  digital files. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Region-based theories of space: mereotopology and beyond / Torsten Hahmann, Michael Gr�uninger -- PLCA: a framework for qualitative spatial reasoning based on connection patterns of regions / Kazuko Takahashi -- Qualitative reasoning and spatio-temporal continuity / Ernest Davis -- A qualitative trajectory calculus to reason about moving point objects / Matthias Delafontaine ... [et al.] -- Methodologies for qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning application design / Carl Schultz, Robert Amor, Hans W. Guesgen -- Enriching the qualitative spatial reasoning system RCC8 / Ahed Alboody, Florence Sedes, Jordi Inglada -- A region-based ontology of the brain ventricular system and its relation to schizophrenia / Paulo Santos ... [et al.] -- Explanation generation over temporal interval algebra / Debasis Mitra, Florent Launay -- Reasoning about space, actions, and change: a paradigm for applications of spatial reasoning / Mehul Bhatt -- Integrated ontologies for spatial scene descriptions / Sotirios Batsakis, Euripides G.M. Petrakis -- Qualitative spatial reasoning for applications: new challenges and the sparQ toolbox / Diedrich Wolter, Jan Oliver Wallgr�un -- On the representation and recognition of temporal patterns of activities in smart environments / Fulvio Mastrogiovanni ... [et al.] -- Topical and spatio-temporal search over distributed online databases / Nikos Zotos, Sofia Stamou. 
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<br/><br/> "This book is a contribution to the emerging discipline of qualitative spatial information theory within artificial intelligence, covering both theory and application-centric research and providing a comprehensive perspective on the emerging area of qualitative spatio-temporal representation and reasoning"--Provided by publisher. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781616928704 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4018/978-1-61692-868-1  doi 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Qualitative reasoning.<br/>Spatial analysis (Statistics)<br/>Space and time--Mathematical models.<br/>Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Computer vision Databases Distributed multi-dimensional search Formal modeling of space, time and change GIS/spatial information systems Integrated ontologies for spatial scene descriptions Knowledge discovery and data mining Mobile computing Qualitative spatial modeling and reasoning Spatio-temporal patterns 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q339.25  / .Q84 2012e 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>006.3/33