CONFERENCE PROGRAM
COSIT '01
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Wednesday, September 19
--- Tutorials ---
9:00-12:30 (30 min break)
I. Tony Cohn, University of Leeds
"Qualitative Spatial Representations and Reasoning"
II. Mary Czerwinski & George Robertson, Microsoft Research
"Navigating Information Spaces"
14:00 - 17:30 (30 min break)
III. Jonathan Raper, City University, London
"Everything you wanted to know about GIS, but were afraid to ask!"
IV. Jack Loomis & Andrew Beall, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Virtual Reality as a Research Tool for Studying Spatial Cognition"
19:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
Thursday, September 20
8:30 --- Conference Opening ---
8:50-9:40 Keynote Lecture I
A Geographer Looks at Spatial Information Theory
Michael F. Goodchild
9:50-11:05 Paper Session I: Geospatial Ontology and Ontologies I
True Grid
Barry Smith
A Taxonomy of Partitions
Thomas Bittner and Barry Smith
A Geometric Theory of Vague Boundaries Based on Supervaluation
Lars Kulik
11:05-11:20 --break
11:20-12:35 Paper Session II: Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning I
When Tables Tell It All: Qualitative Spatial and Temporal
Reasoning Based on Linear Orderings
Gerard Ligozat
Computational Structure in Three-Valued Nearness Relations
Matt Duckham and Michael Worboys
Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Continuity
Shyamanta M. Hazarika and Anthony G. Cohn
12:35-13:35 --- lunch break
13:35-14:50 Paper Session III: Formalizations of Human Spatial Cognition
Application of Supervaluation Semantics to Vaguely Defined
Spatial Concepts
Brandon Bennett
Spatial and Cognitive Simulation with Multi-agent Systems
Andrew U. Frank, Steffen Bittner, and Martin Raubal
A Virtual Test Bed in Support of Cognitively–Aware Geomatics
Technologies
Geoffrey Edwards
14:50-15:05 --break
15:05-16:20 Paper Session IV: Space, Cognition, and Information Systems I
Evaluating the Usability of the Scale Metaphor for Querying
Semantic Information Spaces
Sara Irina Fabrikant
A Semantic Map as Basis for the Decision Process in the www
Navigation
Hartwig Hochmair and Andrew U. Frank
Pragmatism and Spatial Layout Design
Susan L. Epstein, Bernard Moulin, Walid Chaker, Janice Glasgow,
and Jeremi Gancet
16:20-16:35 --break
16:35-17:50 Paper Session V: Navigation: Human and Machine Approaches
Spatial Frames of Reference Used in Identifying Direction
of Movement: An Unexpected Turn
Christy R. Miller and Gary L. Allen
The Role of a Self-Reference System in Spatial Navigation
M. Jeanne Sholl
The Utility of Global Representations in a Cognitive Map
M.E. Jefferies and W.K Yeap
19:00 --- "Birds of a Feather" Dinners
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Friday, September 21
9:00-9:50 Keynote Lecture II
How Spoken Language and Signed Language Structure Space Differently
Leonard Talmy
10:00-11:15 Paper Session VI: Language and Space
Two Path Prepositions: Along and Past
Christian Kray, Jörg Baus, Hubert Zimmer, Harry Speiser,
and Antonio Krüger
Acquiring Spatial Representations from Descriptions Compared
to Depictions: The Role of Spatial Orientation
Holly A. Taylor, David H. Uttal, Joan Fisher, and Marshall Mazepa
When and Why Referring to Visual Landmarks in Direction Giving?
Pierre-Emmanuel Michon and Michel Denis
11:15-11:30 --break
11:30-12:45 Paper Session VII: Space, Cognition, and Information Systems II
Recognition of Abstract Regions in Cartographic Maps
Joe Heike Steinhauer, Tom Wiese, and Christian Freksa
Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place
Christopher B. Jones, Harith Alani, and Douglas Tudhope
Qualitative Spatial Representation for Information Retrieval
by Gazetteers
C. Schlieder, T. Vögele, and U. Visser
12:45-14:00 --- lunch break
14:00 --- Hearst Castle Expedition ---
19:30 --- Conference Banquet, Inn at Morro Bay ---
Saturday, September 22
9:00-9:50 Keynote Lecture III
Spatial Representation and Updating: Evidence from Neuropsychological
Investigations
Marlene Behrmann and John Philbeck
10:00-11:15 Paper Session VIII: Cognitive Mapping
Mental Processing of Geographic Knowledge
Thomas Barkowsky
Spatial Cognition and the Processing of Verticality in Underground
Environments
Sylvie Fontaine
Grid Patterns and Cultural Expectations in Urban Wayfinding
Clare Davies and Eric Pederson
11:15-11:30 --break
11:30-12:45 Paper Session IX: Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning II
Relative Localization of Extended Objects in Two-Dimensional
Space
Hedda R. Schmidtke
Double-Crossing: Decidability and Computational Complexity
of a Qualitative Calculus for Navigation
Alexander Scivos and Bernhard Nebel
Spatial Reasoning: No Need for Visual Information
Markus Knauff, Corinne Jola, and Gerhard Strube
12:45-13:45 --- lunch break
13:45-15:00 Paper Session X: Geospatial Ontology and Ontologies II
A Formal Theory of Objects and Fields
Antony Galton
What’s In an Image?
Gilberto Câmara, Max J. Egenhofer, Frederico Fonseca,
and Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro
Features, Objects, and Other Things: Ontological Distinctions
in the Geographic Domain
David M. Mark, Andre Skupin, and Barry Smith
15:00-15:15 --break
15:15-16:45 Panel Discussion and Meeting Close
Sunday, September 23
10:00 --- Doctoral Colloquium ---
10:00-10:15
Biases in Motor and Verbal Estimations of Spatial Relations:
Towards Computational Representation
Daniel B. M. Haun
10:15-10:30
Formalization of Geographic Ontologies Based on Identity,
Properties, and Vagueness
Eleni Tomai
10:30-10:45
Spatial Complexity
Femke Reitsma
10:45-11:00
Benefits to Spatial-Motor Working Memory from Sign Language
Experience in Hearing Adults
Madeleine Keehner
11:00-11:15
Towards a Formal Specifications of an Animation Data Model
for Exploration of Dynamics Virtual Worlds
Jorge Campos
11:15-11:30 --break
11:30-11:45
Orientation in Spatial Layouts: Contributions of Visual and
Proprioceptive Information
Anthony E. Richardson
11:45-12:00
Visual Components of the Mental Representation of Routes
Elsa Manghi
12:00-12:15
Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in the Environment: The Integration
of Separately Learned Places and the Development of Metric Knowledge
Toru Ishikawa
12:15-12:30
Verbal And Pictorial Descriptions of Routes: An Analysis
of Cognitive Processes and a Computer Modelization
Edyta Przytula Machrouh
12:30-12:45
The Processing and Recall of Route Directions: Contrasting
Street- vs. Landmark-Based Instructions
Ariane Tom