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

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Landmarks and Navigation.- Large-Scale Navigation: The Insect Case.- Route Navigation Using Motion Analysis.- The Nature of Landmarks for Real and Electronic Spaces.- Route Directions.- Pictorial and Verbal Tools for Conveying Routes.- Elements of Good Route Directions in Familiar and Unfamiliar Environments.- The Production of Route Instructions in Underground and Urban Environments.- Abstraction and Spatial Hierarchies.- One Step up the Abstraction Ladder: Combining Algebras - From Functional Pieces to a Whole.- Formalizing Regions in the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy: an AH-Graphs implementation approach.- Abstraction, Levels of Detail, and Hierarchies in Map Series.- Topological Relations in Hierarchical Partitions.- Spatial Reasoning Calculi.- A Predication Calculus for Qualitative Spatial Representations.- Simple Models for Simple Calculi.- Terminological Default Reasoning about Spatial Information: A First Step.- Reasoning about Cardinal Directions Using Grids as Qualitative Geographic Coordinates.- Ontology of Space.- The Role of Identity Conditions in Ontology Design.- Atomicity vs. Infinite Divisibility of Space.- The Mereotopology of Discrete Space.- Agglomerations.- Ontology and Geographic Objects: An Empirical Study of Cognitive Categorization.- Modes of Connection.- Visual Representation and Reasoning.- Representation and Reasoning about Shapes: Cognitive and Computational Studies in Visual Reasoning in Design.- An Algebraic Interpretation of Semantic Networks.- Data Characterization Schema for Intelligent Support in Visual Data Analysis.- Maps and Routes.- Recognition-Triggered Response and the View-Graph Approach to Spatial Cognition.- A Formal Model of the Process of Wayfinding in Built Environments.- A Spatial Model Based on the Notions of Spatial Conceptual Map and of Object's Influence Areas.- Granularity and Qualitative Abstraction.- Granulation for Graphs.- On Ontology and Epistemology of Rough Location.- Qualitative Spatial Representation for Situational Awareness and Spatial Decision Support.- Qualitative Motion Representation in Egocentric and Allocentric Frames of Reference.