Qualitative Spatial Change
Antony Galton
Published by
Oxford University
Press,
2000, ISBN 0-19-823397-3.
The blurb from the back cover
This book is a contribution to the emerging discipline of Qualitative
Spatial Information Theory. The discipline has arisen from a
realization that traditional quantitative techniques for the
representation and analysis of spatial phenomena must be
supplemented by a wide range of qualitative methods if we are to use
information technology effectively to further our capacity for
handling spatio-temporal information. Such qualitative methods must be
supported by a body of theory concerning the nature and organisation
of our spatio-temporal concepts. This theory will cover time, space,
objects in space, their spatial attributes, changes in these
attributes, and the temporal structure of those changes. In this book
each of these topics is given a chapter to itself, and a theory of
qualitative spaces as partitions of quantitative spaces is developed
in detail, and applied to numerous particular cases. The theory thus
provides a uniform basis for the further development of formal and
computational theories of spatial change.
Chapter Headings
- Introduction
- Space
- Objects
- Spatial attributes and relations
- Time and change
- Varieties of spatial change
- Continuity
- Qualitative continuity
Review
Lars Kulik in Künstliche Intelligenz, 4/02 (October 2002), p.44.
[Quotation from the review: "[T]his book is a little gem and should not be missing from any library" - librarians please note!]
Antony Galton
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