CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Revised Conference Program for COSIT '01
COSIT '01
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Sep. 20, 2001
Thursday, September 20 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
12:30-13:30 --- lunch
18:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
Friday, September 21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
Application of Supervaluation Semantics to Vaguely Defined Spatial
Concepts
Brandon Bennett
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
13:35-14:50 Paper Session III
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
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
Navigation: Human and Machine Approaches
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
Virtual Reality as a Research Tool for Studying Spatial Cognition
Jack Loomis and Andrew Beall
16:20-17:10 Paper Session V
Geospatial Ontology and Ontologies II
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
19:30 --- Conference Banquet, Inn at Morro Bay ---
Saturday, September 22 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
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
Two Path Prepositions: Along and Past
Christian Kray, Jörg Baus, Hubert Zimmer, Harry Speiser, and Antonio
Krüger
11:15-11:30 --break
11:30-12:45 Paper Session VII
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
12:45-13:45 --- lunch break
13:45-15:00 Paper Session VIII
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
15:00-15:15 --break
15:15-16:45 Panel Discussion and Meeting Close
Moderator: Mary Hegarty; Panelists:
Waldo Tobler, Ben Kuipers, Stephen Hirtle
Sunday, September 23 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
10:00-11:15 --- Doctoral Colloquium ---
10:00-10:15
Orientation in Spatial Layouts: Contributions of Visual and Proprioceptive
Information
Anthony E. Richardson
10:15-10:30
Spatial Complexity
Femke Reitsma
10:30-10:45
Benefits to Spatial-Motor Working Memory from Sign Language Experience
in Hearing Adults
Madeleine Keehner
10:45-11:00
Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in the Environment: The Integration of
Separately Learned Places and the Development of Metric Knowledge
Toru Ishikawa
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
Interpreting High Resolution Imagery with Incomplete Spatial Knowledge
Xiaohang Liu