Preface

Cognitive and Computational Models of Spatial Representation

Volume

Papers from the 1996 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

This symposium intends to meet the growing desire to integrate research into spatial representation and reasoning by the artificial intelligence, cognitive science and cognitive psychology communities. In assuming that, to some degree, the nature of human spatial cognition is relevant to AI research, the aim of this symposium is to: initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue to facilitate exchange of ideas and cross-fertilization among researchers; review the current influence that research into spatial cognition has on approaches to spatial representation in AI; develop a better appreciation of research into spatial representation by identifying issues that span domain and discipline boundaries; stimulate the discussion of issues in the computational realization of cognitive models of spatial representation.