The mathematical morpho-logical view on reasoning about space

  • Authors:
  • Marco Aiello;Brammert Ottens

  • Affiliations:
  • Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands and DIT, Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy;Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Qualitative reasoning about mereotopological relations has been extensively investigated, while more recently geometrical and spatio-temporal reasoning are gaining increasing attention. We propose to consider mathematical morphology operators as the inspiration for a new language and inference mechanism to reason about space. Interestingly, the proposed morpho-logic captures not only traditional mereotopological relations, but also notions of relative size and morphology. The proposed representational framework is a hybrid arrow logic theory for which we define a resolution calculus which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first such calculus for arrow logics.