Lifestyle is a concept that generally includes social, economic, and cultural components. It has a great influence on introduction of behavior and attitudes of people in a community. According to various scholars, lifestyle is closely related to the quality of life. An example of lifestyle is quality of location and living space affecting the architecture of house interior. This study aimed at ...

A class of novel spatial relation, internal cardinal direction (ICD) relation, is introduced and discussed. Applying ICD-9 model, the characteristics and the simplification rule of ICD relations are discussed at first. Then the ICD related qualitative spatial reasoning is discussed in a formal way. Four composition cases are presented. They are 1) composing two nesting ICD relations and composi...

The field of qualitative spatial reasoning is now an active research area in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and also in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Different kinds of spatial relations play an important role in spatial reasoning, spatial analysis, and query languages for geospatial databases. GIS and image databases are often based on the description of relations between spatial regio...

A significant amount of spatial information in textual documents is hidden within the relationship between events. While humans have an intuitive understanding of these relationships that allow us to recover an object’s or event’s location, currently no annotated data exists to allow automatic discovery of spatial containment relations between events. We present our process for building such a ...

Traditionally, GISs employ purely quantitative methods to represent and infer spatial information. This approach has serious shortcomings when dealing with qualitative spatial information, which may be incomplete or imprecise and without knowledge of the particular geometry of the spatial objects involved. This paper describes efforts to build a prototype of a qualitative spatial reasoner about...