Spatial and Temporal Knowledge Representation

Antony Galton

Review article, in Journal of Earth Science Informatics, Volume 2 Number 3, September 2009, pages 169-187 (DOI 10.1007/s12145-009-0027-6)

Abstract

Knowledge Representation (KR) originated as a discipline within Artificial Intelligence, and is concerned with the representation of knowledge in symbolic form so that it can be stored and manipulated on a computer. This article surveys that part of KR that is concerned with the representation of space and time, with particular reference to the use of such representations in geographical information science.

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