Qualitative spatio-temporal representation and reasoning [electronic resource] : trends and future directions / Shyamanta M. Hazarika, editor.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.Description: electronic texts (403 p.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781616928704 (ebook)
- Qualitative reasoning
- Spatial analysis (Statistics)
- Space and time -- Mathematical models
- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
- 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
- 006.3/33 23
- Q339.25 .Q84 2012e
- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
"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.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed May 8, 2012).