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Categorizing Binary Topological Relations Between Regions, Lines, and Points in Geographic Databases

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This research was partially funded by NSF grant No.
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This research was partially funded by NSF grant No. IRI-9309230 and grants from Intergraph Corporation. Additional support from NSF for the NCGIA under No. SBR-9204141 is gratefully acknowledged. Max J. Egenhofer University of Maine, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and Department of Surveying Engineering, Department of Computer Science, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5711, max@mecan1.maine.edu

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Interpreting the Fuzzy Semantics of Natural-Language Spatial Relation Terms with the Fuzzy Random Forest Algorithm

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Multi-Scale Qualitative Location: A Topology-Based Model

TL;DR: A topology-based, multi-scale qualitative location model is proposed to represent the associations of multiple representations of the same objects with respect to the frames of reference at different levels.
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A Logic-Based Foundation for Spatial Relationships in Mobile GIS Environment

TL;DR: This chapter attempts to provide a paradigm to treat moving objects in a mobile GIS environment based on space and time partitioning and provides convincing evidence of the logic-based framework proposed, by demonstrating how it can provide a framework model of topological relations in space andTime.
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Spatial Relation Predicates in Topographic Feature Semantics

TL;DR: The results of this study make explicit the concepts forming a broad set of spatial relation expressions, which form the basis for expanding the range of possible queries for topographical data analysis and mapping.
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Partitions to improve spatial reasoning

TL;DR: The concept of using topology to augment partitions is addressed and future work within the dissertation includes other partition-based relation theories, including digital topological relations and surrounds configurations within a collection of objects.
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TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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Metaphors We Live by

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Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals

James F. Allen
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Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals

TL;DR: In this paper, an interval-based temporal logic is introduced, together with a computationally effective reasoning algorithm based on constraint propagation, which is notable in offering a delicate balance between time and space.
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