Representing space for practical reasoning

Authors:
Margaret M. Fleck
Affiliations:
Dept. of Engineering Science, Oxford University, Oxford, England
Venue:
IJCAI'87 Proceedings of the 10th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Year:
1987

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Abstract

This paper describes a new approach to representing space and time for practical reasoning. Unlike Rn, the new models can represent a bounded region of space using only finitely many cells, so they can be manipulated directly. Unlike Zn, they have useful notions of function continuity and region connectedness. Finally, the topology of space is allowed to depend on the situation being represented, accounting for sharp changes in function values and lack of connectedness across object boundaries.