Spatial relation resolution and spatial relation abstraction

Spatial Relation-Based Representation Systems

Spatial Analysis and Fuzzy Relation Equations

We implement an algorithm that uses a system of fuzzy relation equations (SFRE) with the max-min composition for solving a problem of spatial analysis. We integrate this algorithm in a Geographical Information System (GIS) tool, and the geographical area under study is divided in homogeneous subzones (with respect to the parameters involved) to which we apply our process to determine the sympto...

Theoretical review and Planning process of the Relation between Environment, Spatial Justice and Urban Governance

The concept of spatial justice has been widely employed in the recent literature that attempts to deal with concepts and practices of justice from a geographical perspective. However, the concept of spatial justice needs to be recast. Spatial justice could be the most radical offspring of law’s ‘spatial turn’. Spatial justice is arguably the most promising platform on which to redefine, not o...

Spatial Relation Extraction using Relational Learning

The automatic extraction of spatial information is a challenging and novel task with many applications. We motivate our definition of this task and formulate it as an information extraction step prior to mapping to spatial semantics. Each sentence gives rise to several spatial relations between words representing landmarks, trajectors and spatial indicators. Learning to extract such spatial rel...

Qualitative Spatial-Relation Reasoning for Design

Qualitative spatial relations are symbol abstractions of geometric representations, which allow computational analyses independent of, but consistent with, graphical depictions. This paper compiles some of the most commonly used sets of qualitative spatial relations and their logical inference mechanisms. The abstract representation of the relations’ interconnectedness in the form of their conc...