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....consistent scenarios of either internally connected or disconnected regions. Future work includes analyzing the usage of the canonical model for dealing with the special case of two dimensional internally connected regions as well as analyzing the cognitive meaning of the canonical model [13]. Acknowledgments I would like to thank Bernhard Nebel and Tony Cohn for the fruitful discussions on the topic of the paper. This research was supported by DFG as part of the project fast qualspace, which is part of the DFG special research effort on Spatial Cognition. A Basics on Modal ....

Markus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, and Jochen Renz. A cognitive assessment of topological spatial relations: Results from an empirical investigation. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT'97), volume 1329 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 193--206, 1997.

....akin to human reasoning. This, however, is mostly based on the intuition of researchers rather than on empirical data. In this paper we continue our effort in empirically studying the cognitive adequacy of systems of topological relations. As compared to our previous empirical investigation [KRR97] we partially lifted constraints on the shape of regions in configurations that we presented subjects in a grouping task. With a high level of agreement, subjects distinguished between different possibilities of how spatial regions can touch each other. Based on the results of our ....

....but with little or no empirical justification . In this paper we will continue our effort in studying the cognitive validity, also referred to as cognitive adequacy (we will define this term later) of existing approaches to QSR based on empirical investigations. Similar to our previous work [KRR97] we will perform a grouping task where all presented items show two different colored spatial regions related in a different way. In [KRR97] all objects were circles. Although this does not prevent subjects from grouping items according to size, distance, direction, or topology, other aspects ....

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Markus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, and Jochen Renz. A cognitive assessment of topological spatial relations: Results from an empirical investigation. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT'97), volume 1329 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 193--206, 1997.

....for generating realizations of either internally connected or disconnected regions. Future work includes analyzing the usage of the canonical model for dealing with the special case of two dimensional internally connected regions as well as analyzing the cognitive meaning of the canonical model (Knauff et al. 1997). Acknowledgments I would like to thank Bernhard Nebel and Tony Cohn for the fruitful discussions on the topic of the paper. This research has been supported by DFG as part of the project fast qual space, which is part of the DFG special research effort on Spatial Cognition . ....

M. Knauff, R. Rauh, and J. Renz (1997). A cognitive assessment of topological spatial relations: Results from an empirical investigation. In Proc. COSIT'97, LNCS 1329.

....relations. In this chapter we are addressing different aspects of using RCC 8. Among these are cognitive aspects of RCC 8, namely, whether a formally defined topological calculus like RCC 8 can also be regarded as cognitively adequate. We will report about an empirical investigation on that topic [KRR97] that resulted from a cooperation with the project MEMOSPACE (see their chapter in this volume [KRSS98] One aspect is concerned with representational properties. As spatial regions used by RCC 8 are arbitrary regular subsets of the topological space, it is unclear how these regions should be ....

....from a cognitive point Fig. 2. Screen dump of the monitor at the beginning of the grouping task of view by the MEMOSPACE project (see Chapter [KRSS98] Here the authors distinguish between conceptual cognitive adequacy and inferential cognitive adequacy [KRS95] According to Knauff et al. [KRR97], a spatial calculus is inferentially cognitive adequate if the reasoning mechanism of the calculus is structurally similar to the way people reason about space and it is conceptually cognitive adequate if empirical evidence supports the assumption that a system of relations is a model of ....

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Markus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, and Jochen Renz. A cognitive assessment of topological spatial relations: Results from an empirical investigation. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT'97), volume 1329 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 193--206, 1997.

....fflfi Y X ffifl fflfi Y OEAE ffifl fflfi OEAE OEAE ffifl fflfi OEAE TPP(X; Y ) TPP Gamma1 (X; Y ) X Y X Y X X Y X Y PO(X;Y ) EQ(X;Y ) NTPP(X; Y ) NTPP Gamma1 (X; Y ) Figure 3: Two dimensional examples for the eight base relations of RCC 8. adequate in a strong sense [KRR97] i.e. it can be seen as a model for human conceptual knowledge about spatial relations. In this chapter we address different questions that arise when using RCC 8 for practical applications such as cognitive maps: ffl How can arbitrary regular regions be represented within RCC 8 ffl What is ....

....to other computational problems when indefinite topological relations are allowed. Summarizing, the research on representing topological aspects of cognitive maps and reasoning with this knowledge so far has led to a deeper understanding of the cognitive aspects of this kind of representation [KRR97] its computational properties [RN97] and its representational properties [Ren97] ....

Markus Knauff, Reinhold Rauh, and Jochen Renz. A cognitive assessment of topological spatial relations: Results from an empirical investigation, proceedings of the 3rd international conference on spatial information theory (COSIT'97). In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 1997.

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Knauff, M., Rauh, R., & Renz, J. (1997). A cognitive assessment of topological spatial relations: Results from an empirical investigation. In S. C. Hirtle & A. U. Frank (Eds.), Spatial information theory: A theoretical basis for GIS (pp. 193-206). Berlin: Springer.

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