Spatial and Temporal Granularity
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Kurt Bollacker, Program Chair
Technical Report WS-00-08 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Preface / 1
Kurt Bollacker
An Algebraic Representation of Calendars / 1
Peng Ning, X. Sean Wang, and Sushil Jajodia
A String-Based Model for Infinite Granularities / 9
Jef Wijsen
Representing Absolute Time Expressions with Vagueness, Indeterminacy, and Different Granularities / 17
Carlo Combi
Quantum Mereotopology / 25
Barry Smith and Berit Brogaard
Shifting Granularity over Geospatial Lifelines / 33
Kathleen Hornsby
Orthogonally Modeling Video Structuration and Annotation: Exploiting the Concept of Granularity / 37
M. Dumas, R. Lozano, M.-C. Fauvet, H. Martin, and P.-C. Scholl
Approximate Qualitative Temporal Reasoning / 45
Thomas Bittner
Extending the Event Calculus with Temporal Granularity and Indeterminacy / 53
Luca Chittaro and Carlo Combi
Short Papers
Ontology-Driven Information Integration / 61
Frederico Fonseca, Max Egenhofer, and Clodoveu Davis
From Perception to Decision Making by Means of Qualitative Abstraction / 65
Christian Freksa
A Constraint Model for Analyzing the Evolution of Topological Relationships at Different Scales / 67
Tao-Yuan Jen
Temporal Granularity and Temporal Tagging of Text / 71
Inderjeet Mani and George Wilson
STA: Spatio-Temporal Aggregation with Applications to Analysis of Diffusion-Reaction Phenomena / 75
Iván Ordóñez and Feng Zhao
Spatial Representation and Reasoning Using the N-Dimensional Projective Approach / 79
Jorge Pais and Carlos Pinto-Ferreira
MurMur: Database Management of Multiple Representations / 83
Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra, and Esteban Zimanyi
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