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Spatial Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Representing and Processing Spatial Knowledge

By Christian Freksa , Christopher Habel , Roberta L. Klatzky (auth.) , Karl F. Wender (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1998
ISBN
3540646035, 9783540646037
DOI
10.1007/3-540-69342-4
LCC
Q387 .S7 1998
Open Library ID
OL365359M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4714709 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1404 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition
1
Pages
489\485
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2011-01-06 10:13:16
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer

Description

Research on spatial cognition is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary enterprise for the study of spatial representations and cognitive spatial processes, be they real or abstract, human or machine. Spatial cognition brings together a variety of - search methodologies: empirical investigations on human and animal orientation and navigation; studies of communicating spatial knowledge using language and graphical or other pictorial means; the development of formal models for r- resenting and processing spatial knowledge; and computer implementations to solve spatial problems, to simulate human or animal orientation and navigation behavior, or to reproduce spatial communication patterns. These approaches can interact in interesting and useful ways: Results from empirical studies call for formal explanations both of the underlying memory structures and of the processes operating upon them; we can develop and - plement operational computer models obeying the relationships between objects and events described by the formal models; we can empirically test the computer models under a variety of conditions, and we can compare the results to the - sults from the human or animal experiments. A disagreement between these results can provide useful indications towards the re nement of the models.

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