Spatial and temporal reasoning
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Spatial and temporal reasoning
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997
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Description
Qualitative reasoning about space and time - a reasoning at the human level - promises to become a fundamental aspect of future systems that will accompany us in daily activity.
The aim of Spatial and Temporal Reasoning is to give a picture of current research in this area focusing on both representational and computational issues. The picture emphasizes some major lines of development in this multifaceted, constantly growing area. The material in the book also shows some common ground and a novel combination of spatial and temporal aspects of qualitative reasoning.
Part I presents the overall scene. The chapter by Laure Vieu is on the state of the art in spatial representation and reasoning, and that by Alfonso Gerevini gives a similar survey on research in temporal reasoning. The specific contributions to these areas are then grouped in the two main parts. In Part II, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi examine the ontological status of spatial entities; Anthony Cohn, Brandon Bennett, John Gooday, and Nicholas Gotts present a detailed theory of reasoning with qualitative relations about regions; Andrew Frank discusses the spatial needs of geographical information systems; and Annette Herskovits focuses on the linguistic expression of spatial relations. In Part III, James Allen and George Ferguson describe an interval temporal logic for the representation of actions and events; Drew McDermott presents an efficient way of predicting the outcome of plan execution; and Erik Sandewall introduces a semantics based on transitions for assessing theories of action and change. In Part IV, Antony Galton's chapter stands clearly between the two areas of space and time and outlines the main coordinates of an integrated approach.
Table of Contents
- Preface. Abstracts. Part I: Overview. 1. Spatial Representation and Reasoning in AI
- L. Vieu. 2. Reasoning about Time and Actions in AI
- A. Gerevini. Part II: Spatial Representation and Reasoning. 3. Spatial Entities
- R. Casati, A.C. Varzi. 4. Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Spatial Relations
- A.G. Cohn, et al. 5. Spatial Ontology
- A.U. Frank. 6. Language, Spatial Cognition, and Vision
- A. Herskovits. Part III: Temporal Reasoning. 7. Actions and Events in Interval Temporal Logic
- J.F. Allen, G. Ferguson. 8. Probabilistic Project in Planning
- D. McDermott. 9. Underlying Semantics for Action and Change
- E. Sandewall. Part IV: Between Space and Time. 10. Space, Time and Movement
- A. Galton. List of Authors. References. Subject Index.
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