Ancient Greek literature gives us many relevant traces of the way people represented maritime spaces. Greek narratives endow these spaces with meaning and make them legible. Indeed, these testimonies are a significant contribution to our knowledge of the “odological” space at sea, a space of description including numerous cultural features rather than a space described. This space is based on e...

A matrix A is said to have signed null space provided there exists a set S of sign patterns such that the set of sign patterns of vectors in the null space of à is S for each Ã∈Q(A). It is a generalization of a number of important qualitative matrix classes such as L-matrices, S∗-matrices, totally L-matrices, etc. In this paper, we obtain some new characterizations for matrices with signed null...

We propose a framework for comparing the expressive power and computational behaviour of modal logics designed for reasoning about qualitative aspects of metric spaces. Within this framework we can compare such well-known logics as S4 (for the topology induced by the metric), wK4 (for the derivation operator of the topology), variants of conditional logic, as well as logics of comparative simil...

The key objective of this study is to develop an experimental computational method for mapping architectural space, and further validate the method using several case studies. The result will offer possibilities for quantitative design analysis, particularly on spatial quality influenced by architectural elements. Our proposed method for this computation consists of two phases: determination of...

The eld of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning is now an active research area in its own right within AI (and also in Geographical Information Systems) having grown out of earlier work in philosophical logic and more general Qualitative Reasoning in AI. In this paper (which is a slightly updated version of Cohn, 1997]) I will survey the state of the art in Qualitative Spatial Reasoning, covering repr...

The eld of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning is now an active research area in its own right within AI (and also in Geographical Information Systems) having grown out of earlier work in philosophical logic and more general Qualitative Reasoning in AI. In this paper (which is an updated version of 25]) I will survey the state of the art in Qualitative Spatial Reasoning, covering representation and r...

constructing houses in the form of garden-house became popular among statesmen and the privileged class in naseri period. iranian traditional houses which used to be formed around a central courtyard, now were organized around a garden. so the transition from houses with courtyard to garden-houses created a new order of relationships between spaces, resulted in redefining spaces and their forms...