Tools and techniques in qualitative reasoning about space

  • Authors:
  • Philippe Balbiani

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut de recherche en informatique de Toulouse, CNRS — Université de Toulouse, TOULOUSE CEDEX 9, France

  • Venue:
  • FoIKS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

As a subfield of artificial intelligence, qualitative reasoning is about that kind of knowledge representation languages and automated deduction methods that is used by scientists and engineers when a precise quantitative description of the physical bodies is not available or when a complete quantitative calculation of their relationships is not feasible. A special area of qualitative reasoning is concerned with the qualitative aspects of representing and reasoning about spatial entities. Applications of qualitative spatial reasoning (QSR) can be found in natural language processing [1], spatial information systems [8], etc. They have given rise to numerous knowledge representation languages and automated deduction methods for space.