Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning: An Overview

Issue title: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Cohn, A.G. | Hazarika, S.M.

Abstract: The paper is a overview of the major qualitative spatial representation and reasoning techniques. We survey the main aspects of the representation of qualitative knowledge including ontological aspects, topology, distance, orientation and shape. We also consider qualitative spatial reasoning including reasoning about spatial change. Finally there is a discussion of theoretical results and a glimpse of future work. The paper is a revised and condensed version of [33,34].

Keywords: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning, Ontology

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 46, no. 1-2, pp. 1-29, 2001