The paper is a overview of the major qualitative spatial representation and reasoning
techniques. We survey the main aspects of the representation of qualitative knowledge …

Publisher Summary Early attempts at qualitative spatial reasoning within the qualitative
reasoning (QR) community led to the poverty conjecture. The need for spatial …

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge
Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up …

Inferences about spatial, temporal, and other relations are ubiquitous. This article presents a
novel model-based theory of such reasoning. The theory depends on 5 principles.(a) The …

Various cognitive theories aim to explain human deductive reasoning:(1) mental logic
theories claim syntactic language-based proofs of derivation,(2) the mental model theory …

In the previous chapter we found evidence that topological relations in general and RCC-8
in particular are a fundamental part of human conceptualization of space. This makes the …

Inferences about spatial arrangements and relations like “The Porsche is parked to the left of
the Dodge and the Ferrari is parked to the right of the Dodge, thus, the Porsche is parked to …

Spatiotemporal gestures in music and dance have been approached using both qualitative
and quantitative research methods. Applying quantitative methods has offered new …

Whether or not a formal approach to spatial relations is a cognitively adequate (the term will
be explicated in this paper) model of human spatial knowledge is more often based on the …

Abstract Although Qualitative Reasoning has been a lively subfield of AI for many years now,
it is only comparatively recently that substantial work has been done on qualitative spatial …