Modes of Connection

  • Authors:
  • Anthony G. Cohn;Achille C. Varzi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • COSIT '99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In recent years there has been a proliferation of theories for representing space and time in a qualitative way based on a primitive notion of topological connection. In previous work, we have commenced the construction of a unified framework. Independently of any foundational or applicative concerns, we attempt to delineate the space iof mereotopological theories based on an account of their intended models and to place some existing theories into this framework. This paper extends this work by considering a second, orthogonal dimension along which varieties of topological connection can be classified: the strength of the connection.