VRCC-3D+: Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in 3 Dimensions

VRCC-3D+: Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in 3 Dimensions
Author: Nathan Eloe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2015
Genre: Knowledge representation (Information theory)
ISBN:

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"Qualitative Spatial Reasoning (QSR) has varying applications in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), visual programming language semantics, and digital image analysis [17, 53]. Systems for spatial reasoning over a set of objects have evolved in both expressive power and complexity, but implementations or usages of these systems are not common. This is partially due to the computational complexity of the operations required by the reasoner to make informed decisions about its surroundings. These theoretical systems are designed to focus on certain criteria, including efficiency of computation, ease of human comprehension, and expressive power. Sadly, the implementation of these systems is frequently left as an exercise for the reader. Herein, a new QSR system, VRCC-3D+, is proposed that strives to maximize expressive power while minimizing the complexity of reasoning and computational cost of using the system. This system is an evolution of RCC-3D; the system and implementation are constantly being refined to handle the complexities of the reasoning being performed. The refinements contribute to the accuracy, correctness, and speed of the implementation. To improve the accuracy and correctness of the implementation, a way to dynamically change error tolerance in the system to more accurately reflect what the user sees is designed. A method that improves the speed of determining spatial relationships between objects by using composition tables and decision trees is introduced, and improvements to the system itself are recommended; by streamlining the relation set and enforcing strict rules for the precision of the predicates that determine the relationships between objects. A potential use case and prototype implementation is introduced to further motivate the need for implementations of QSR systems, and show that their use is not precluded by computational complexity."--Abstract, page iv.

Robotic Intelligence

Robotic Intelligence
Author: Sheu Phillip Chen-yu
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2019-03-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9811203490

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This volume aims to provide a reference to the development of robotic intelligence, built upon Semantic Computing, in terms of 'action' to realize the 'context' and 'intention' formulated by Semantics Computing during the 'thinking' or reasoning process. It addresses three core areas:

eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction: ECPPM 2016

eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction: ECPPM 2016
Author: Symeon Christodoulou
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315386895

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eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2016 collects the papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Product & Process Modelling (ECPPM 2016, Cyprus, 7-9 September 2016), The contributions cover complementary thematic areas that hold great promise for the advancement of research and technological development in the modelling of complex engineering systems, encompassing a substantial number of high quality contributions on a large spectrum of topics pertaining to ICT deployment instances in AEC/FM, including: • Information and Knowledge Management • Construction Management • Description Logics and Ontology Application in AEC • Risk Management • 5D/nD Modelling, Simulation and Augmented Reality • Infrastructure Condition Assessment • Standardization of Data Structures • Regulatory and Legal Aspects • Multi-Model and distributed Data Management • System Identification • Industrialized Production, Smart Products and Services • Interoperability • Smart Cities • Sustainable Buildings and Urban Environments • Collaboration and Teamwork • BIM Implementation and Deployment • Building Performance Simulation • Intelligent Catalogues and Services

Stone Spaces

Stone Spaces
Author: Peter T. Johnstone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1982
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521337793

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A unified treatment of the corpus of mathematics that has developed out of M. H. Stone's representation theorem for Boolean algebras (1936) which has applications in almost every area of modern mathematics.

Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries

Geographic Objects with Indeterminate Boundaries
Author: Peter A. Burrough
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000124037

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Current geographical information systems GIS deal almost exclusively with well-defined, static geographical objects ranging from physical landscapes to towns and transport systems. Such objects, exactly located in space, can easily be handled by modern GIS, yet form only a small proportion of all the possible geographical objects.; This book challenges the assumption that the world is compsed of exactly defined and bounded geographic objects such as land parcels, rivers and countries. ignoring the essential complexity of the world, current GIS do not adequately address problems as diverse as the resolution of crime between national boundaries, or the interpretation of views of people from different cultures. This work, bringing together a range of specialists from fields such as linguistics, computer science, land surveying, cartography and soil science, examines current research into the challenges of dealing with geographical phenomena that cannot easily be forced into one of the two current standard data models.

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning with Topological Information

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning with Topological Information
Author: Jochen Renz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2003-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540707360

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Spatial knowledge representation and reasoning with spatial knowledge are relevant issues for many application areas such as robotics, geographical information systems, and computer vision. Exceeding purely quantitative approaches, more recently initiated qualitative approaches allow for dealing with spatial information on a more abstract level that is closer to the way humans think and speak. Starting out with the qualitative, topological constraint calculus RCC8 proposed by Randell, Cui, and Cohn, this work presents answers to a variety of open questions regarding RCC8. The open issues concerning computational properties are solved by exploiting a broad variety of results and methods from logic and theoretical computer science. Questions concerning practical performance are addressed by large-scale empirical computational experiments. The most impressive result is probably the complete classification of computational properties for all fragments of RCC8.

Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science

Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Author: C. Freksa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1999-08-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540663657

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT '99, held in Stade, Germany, in August 1999. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The book is divided into topical sections on landmarks and navigation, route directions, abstraction and spatial hierarchies, spatial reasoning calculi, ontology of space, visual representation and reasoning, maps and routes, and granularity and qualitative abstraction.

Distributive Lattices

Distributive Lattices
Author: Raymond Balbes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2011-11-23
Genre: Lattices, Distributive
ISBN: 9780983801108

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Discussing the foundations of the theory of distributive lattices and the techniques used in this field, this resource also presents a number of special topics to which the theory is applied. In developing the theory, the authors have made use of the methods and tools of universal algebra and elementary category theory.

The Experience of Place

The Experience of Place
Author: Tony Hiss
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 257
Release: 1991-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0679735941

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Why do some places—the concourse of Grand Central Terminal or a small farm or even the corner of a skyscraper—affect us so mysteriously and yet so forcefully? What tiny changes in our everyday environments can radically alter the quality of our daily lives? The Experience of Place offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings.

Automated Deduction, CADE-11

Automated Deduction, CADE-11
Author: Deepak Kapur
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 920
Release: 1992
Genre: Automatic theorem proving
ISBN:

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"This volume contains the papers presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-11) held in Saratoga Springs, NY, inJune 1992. A total of 136 papers were submitted for presentation by researchers from nearly 20 countries. Papers covered many topics including: resolution; term rewriting; natural deduction; theorem proving, in particular in algebra and geometry; parallel theoremprovers; unification theory; constraint solving; logic programing; verification; multivalued, temporal and nonclassical logics; non-monotonic reasoning; planning; proof theory; higher-order logics; and inductive theorem proving. Each submission was reviewed by at least three program committee members and 46 papers were selected for presentation and publication. This volume also contains short descriptions of 23 implementations of automated deduction systems. The volume opens with a keynote address by Larry Wos, winner of the first Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.