Representation and reasoning with qualitative spatial relations is an important problem in
artificial intelligence and has wide applications in the fields of geographic information …

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud analysis has become one of the attractive subjects in
realistic imaging and machine visions due to its simplicity, flexibility and powerful capacity of …

Although the region connection calculus (RCC) offers an appealing framework for modelling
topological relations, its application in real-world scenarios is hampered when spatial …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud analysis has become one of the attractive
subjects in realistic imaging and machine visions due to its simplicity, flexibility and powerful …

Increasing the expressiveness of qualitative spatial calculi is an essential step towards
meeting the requirements of applications. This can be achieved by combining existing …

A constraint satisfaction problem has compactness if any infinite set of constraints is
satisfiable whenever all its finite subsets are satisfiable. We prove a sufficient condition for …

Increasing the expressiveness of qualitative spatial calculi is an essential step towards
meeting the requirements of applications. This can be achieved by combining existing …

Current research on qualitative spatial representation and reasoning usually focuses on one
single aspect of space. However, in real world applications, several aspects are often …

In order to perform topological queries on geographic data, it is necessary to first develop a
topological access method (TOAM). Using the fact that any (incidence or other binary) …

Dealing with spatial and temporal knowledge is an indispensable part of almost all aspects
of human activity. The qualitative approach to spatial and temporal reasoning, known as …