Title
Algebraic Approach To Spatial Reasoning
Abstract
A simple, exemplary system is described that performs reasoning about the spatial relationships between members of a set of spatial objects. The main problem of interest is to make sound and complete inferences about the set of all spatial relationships that hold between the objects, given prior information about a subset of the relationships. The spatial inferences are formalized within the framework of relation algebra and procedurally implemented in terms of constraint satisfaction procedures. Although the approach is general, the particular example employs a new 'complete' set of topological relationships that have been published elsewhere. In particular, a relation algebra for these topological relations is developed and a computational implementation of this algebra is described. Systems with such reasoning capabilities have many applications in geographical analysis and could be usefully incorporated into geographical information systems and related systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
1992
10.1080/02693799208901904
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
spatial reasoning,geographic information system,constraint satisfaction,relation algebra,spatial relationships
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0269-3798
46
PageRank 
References 
Authors
9.42
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Terence It. Smith1469.42
Keith K. Park2469.42