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In this paper, we present an approach to hybrid spatial reasoning, i.e., combining qualitative and quantitative reasoning about space. The idea is to introduce linguistic variables for qualitative spatial reasoning and to associate these variables with fuzzy sets for quantitative spatial reasoning. We show how this approach can be applied to Allen's temporal logic, which can be used for spatial reasoning in a straightforward way.
This author has been supported by the University of Auckland Research Fund under the grant number A18/XXXXX/62090/F3414025.
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Guesgen, H.W. (1997). Towards hybrid spatial reasoning. In: Martin, T.P., Ralescu, A.L. (eds) Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence Towards Intelligent Systems. FLAI 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62474-0_15
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