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Continuity network; Qualitative similarity; Closest topological distance
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A standard assumption concerning reasoning about spatial entities over time is that change is continuous. In qualitative spatial calculi, such as the mereotopological RCC or 9-intersection calculi in which a small finite set of jointly exhaustive and pairwise disjoint sets of relations are defined, this can be represented as a conceptual neighborhood diagram (also known as a continuity network). A pair of relations R 1 and R 2 are conceptual neighbors if it is possible for R 1 to hold at a certain time, and R 2 to hold later, with no third relation holding in between. The diagram to be found in the definitional entry for mereotopology illustrates the conceptual neighborhood for RCC-8.
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Cohn, A.G., Hazarika, S.M.: Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning: An Overview. Fundam. Inf. 46(1–2), 1–29 (2001)
Cohn, A.G., Renz, J.: Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning. In: Lifschitz, V., van Harmelen, F., Porter, F. (eds.) Handbook of Knowledge Representation, Ch. 13. Elsevier, München (2007)
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Cohn, A.G. (2008). Conceptual Neighborhood. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_173
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