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 By Daniel R. Montello

Spatial information theory:

foundations of geographic information science : international conference, COSIT 2001, Morro Bay, CA, USA, September 19-23, 2001 : proceedings
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Springer, 2001 - Science - 502 pages
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 3001, held in Morro Bay, CA, USA in September 2001. The 30 revised full papers presented together with three full keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 70 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on geographical ontology and onthologies; qualitative spatio-temporal reasoning; formalizations of human spatial cognition; space, cognition, and information systems; human and machine approaches to navigation; language and space; and cognitive mapping.
  

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COSIT’99 Final Panel What drives Spatial Information Theory
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Published in S. Hirtle, A. Frank (Eds.), Spatial Information ...
Current geographic information systems giss have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little ...
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COSIT
Stephen C. Hirtle, Andrew U. Frank (Eds.): Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS, International Conference COSIT '97, Laurel Highlands, ...
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Thomas Bittner's Publications. Papers in refereed journals. 1.Bittner, T., Donnelly, M. and Smith, B., to appear. A spatio-temporal ontology for geographic ...
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2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL - Page 278
Department of Psychology, 2029 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, US A 60208-2 170 {duttal, joanfisher, m-mazepa}@northwestern. edu Abstract. ...
Milton Keynes - Page 401
in the relatively new city of Milton Keynes, since their reliance on broad visual and semantic cues is restricted in a more uniform environment. ...
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Cambridge, MA - Page 445
Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference (KR-92), pages 165-176, Cambridge, MA, Oct. ...
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Hillsdale, NJ - Page 187
Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Hochmair, H. (to app.). Adapting One's Mental Model: An Essential Process for Successful Navigation in an ...
Edinburgh - Page 76
London may be considered near Oxford and not near Edinburgh, but there exists no clearly denned boundary between Oxford and Edinburgh where places ...
more pages: 327 331 332
San Diego - Page 373
However, most participants answered that San Diego is farther west than Reno, which is not the case. Stevens and Coupe explained this effect by the ...
more pages: 378 380
Quebec, G1K 7P4 - Page 140
Research Chair in Cognitive Geomatics, and Centre for Research in Geomatics Pavilion Casault, Universite Laval Sainte-Foy, Quebec, G1K 7P4 Geofrrev. ...
Reno - Page 373
However, most participants answered that San Diego is farther west than Reno, which is not the case. Stevens and Coupe explained this effect by the ...
Mahwah, NJ - Page 291
2000, Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates. 420. 22. Taylor, HA, et al.: Is the donut in front of the car? An electrophysiological study examining ...
Bloomfield Hills - Page 5
but market researchers are well aware that the characteristics of Bloomfield Hills relevant to marketing are very much like those of Scottsdale, ...
San Francisco - Page 27
Kennedy, John Miller 1974 A Psychology of Picture Perception: Images and Information, San Francisco: Jossey Bass. ...
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Santa Barbara - Page 290
Project Varenius Seed Grant from the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis (NCGIA), University of California, Santa Barbara to Holly A. ...
more pages: 413
Kingston, Ontario, K7L3N6 - Page 189
walid.chaker@ift.ulaval.ca, jgancet@yahoo.com 3 Department of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L3N6, ...
Ste Foy, QC - Page 189
NY 10021, USA susan.epstein@hunter.cuny.edu 2 Computer Science Department and Research Center of Geomatics, Laval University, Ste Foy, QC G 1 K 7P4, ...
Florence - Page 16
holding 1. that there arose among a certain group of citizens of Florence in the early years of the fifteenth century a new way of apprehending visual ...
Scottsdale, Arizona - Page 5
market researchers are well aware that the characteristics of Bloomfield Hills relevant to marketing are very much like those of Scottsdale, Arizona. ...
New York City - Page 12
The pixels covering New York City may be roughly homogeneous in spectral response when seen from the AVHRR satellite, with a ground resolution of ...
more pages: 27 43 189 444 488
Paris - Page 151
of instructions acquired from human subjects concerning navigational problems on university campuses and within the confines of the city of Paris. ...
more pages: 76 294
Oxford - Page 76
London may be considered near Oxford and not near Edinburgh, but there exists no clearly denned boundary between Oxford and Edinburgh where places ...
more pages: 107
Columbia, SC 29208 - Page 206
Allen Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA cmiller@. sc.edu or allen-garv@sc.edu Abstract. ...
Orono, ME 04469 - Page 474
Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-571 1, USA {max, f red}@spatial .maine. edu Abstract. ...
London - Page 76
near Oxford and not near Edinburgh, but there exists no clearly denned boundary between Oxford and Edinburgh where places stop being near to London. ...
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213 - Page 352
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA Behrmann-f@cmu.edu 2 Department of Psychology, The George Washington University, 2125 G. ...
Santa Barbara, California 93106 - Page 1
and Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4060, USA good®geog . ucsb . edu Abstract. ...
Chestnut Hill, MA - Page 217
Jeanne Sholl Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 01772 sholl@bc.edu Abstract The self-reference system architecture developed ...
Milan - Page 16
During the wars of 1420, however, a longitudinal line was proposed as the boundary between the two states of Milan and Florence. ...
Buffalo - Page 28
Northwestern University, bittner@cs.nwu.edu Department of Philosophy, Center for Cognitive Science and NCGIA, State University of New York, Buffalo, ...
Munich - Page 27
1986 Linear Perspective and the Visual Dimensions of Science and Art (Leonardo da Vinci Studies I), Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1986. ...
Venice - Page 27
De pictura praestanlissima, original (Latin) edition: Basel 1540 (reprinted Portland, Oregon 1972), Italian translation: Delia piltura, Venice 1547. ...
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Eugene, Oregon - Page 401
long-term inhabitants of the only grid-pattern city in England (Milton Keynes), and those of a similarly-sized grid-pattern US city (Eugene, Oregon). ...
Washington, DC - Page 138
Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC ( 1996). 8. Ferber, J.: Multi-Agent Systems. An Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence. ...
Medford, Massachusetts - Page 278
Uttal2, Joan Fisher2, and Marshall Mazepa2 1 Tufts University, Department of Psychology, Paige Hall, Medford, Massachusetts, USA 02155 htavlor@tuf ts ...
Chicago, IL - Page 445
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pages 261-266, Chicago, IL, 1992. ...
Savannah, GA - Page 169
Proceedings, First International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Savannah, GA, Oct. 28-31, 2000. ...
Kansas City, MO - Page 487
Kansas City, MO: ACM Press, NY 3. Couclelis, H., People Manipulate Objects (but Cultivate Fields): Beyond the Raster- Vector Debate in GIS, ...
Portland, Oregon - Page 27
1435-1436 De pictura praestanlissima, original (Latin) edition: Basel 1540 (reprinted Portland, Oregon 1972), Italian translation: Delia piltura, ...
Philadelphia, PA - Page 446
In Proceedings of the 5th National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-86), pages 377-382, Philadelphia, PA, Aug. ...
Rome - Page 17
method to yield what he calls a 'picture' of Rome.2 A surveyor needs some means to determine the proportionate distance between any two quantities. ...