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Handbook of Spatial Logics

By Marco Aiello , Ian Pratt-Hartmann , Johan van Benthem (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2007
ISBN
9781402055867, 1402055862
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
10 MB (10521432 bytes)
Pages
1072\1072
Orientation
portrait
Scanned
no
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

A spatial logic is a formal language interpreted over any class of structures featuring geometrical entities and relations, broadly construed. In the past decade, spatial logics have attracted much attention in response to developments in such diverse fields as Artificial Intelligence, Database Theory, Physics, and Philosophy. The aim of this handbook is to create, for the first time, a systematic account of the field of spatial logic. The book comprises a general introduction, followed by fourteen chapters by invited authors. Each chapter provides a self-contained overview of its topic, describing the principal results obtained to date, explaining the methods used to obtain them, and listing the most important open problems. Jointly, these contributions constitute a comprehensive survey of this rapidly expanding subject.

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