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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 R1 and R2 are conceptual neighbors if it is possible for R1 to hold at a certain time, and R2 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 AG, Hazarika SM (2001) Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning: an overview. Fundam Inf 46(1–2):1–29
Cohn AG, Renz J (2007) Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning. In: Lifschitz V, van Harmelen F, Porter F (eds) Handbook of knowledge representation, Ch. 13. Elsevier, München
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Cohn, A.G. (2017). Conceptual Neighborhood. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_173
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