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In this paper we propose a qualitative model to represent and reason about dynamic phenomena in a geographic space. Our model is based on linguistic cognitive archetypes, ontological definitions of geographic space and Conceptual Graphs (CGs). In a first part, we present the main concepts of the model and how we define them using CGs. In a second part, we present an overview of how this model is applied to the multiagent geosimulation domain in the context of the MAGS-COA project. Our model is original for two main reasons. First we use a linguistic approach to qualitatively model dynamic situations in a geographic environment. Second, we use CGs to represent the knowledge associated with such situations. Using CGs makes our model computationally feasible and useable to carry out spatial qualitative reasoning.
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Haddad, H., Moulin, B. (2007). Using Cognitive Archetypes and Conceptual Graphs to Model Dynamic Phenomena in Spatial Environments. In: Priss, U., Polovina, S., Hill, R. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications. ICCS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4604. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73681-3_6
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