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An Interstage Change Model for Sandbox Geography

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GeoSpatial Semantics (GeoS 2005)

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Formal models for incremental ontologies are needed in geographic information systems. While there are methods to describe ontologies for a certain purpose, it is still an open question, how to link different geographic ontologies. Observing children in a sandbox can motivate a new way of designing dynamic spatio-temporal ontologies. Contemporary developmental psychology provides evidence that knowledge about the world is acquired in piecemeal fashion. Infants form theory like concepts of the world that are revised in the light of new evidence [12]. We take these findings to build multi tiered ontologies grounded in children’s spatial experience. Questions of how to structure and connect the ontologies will be addressed. The formalization of spatial concepts are investigated in an agent based approach using an algebraic framework.

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  1. Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography, Technical University Vienna, Gusshausstrasse 27 – 29, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Florian A. Twaroch

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  1. Center for Web Research, Chile

    M. Andrea Rodríguez

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 South Morgan Street (M/C 152), 60607, Chicago, IL, USA

    Isabel Cruz

  3. National Polytechnic, Institute, Mexico, Centro de Investigacion en Computacion, Mexico

    Sergei Levashkin

  4. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, Boardman Hall, 04469-5711, Orono, ME, USA

    Max J. Egenhofer

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Twaroch, F.A. (2005). An Interstage Change Model for Sandbox Geography. In: Rodríguez, M.A., Cruz, I., Levashkin, S., Egenhofer, M.J. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3799. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11586180_19

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