This page contains the list of full papers accepted to COSIT 2017 for oral presentations. They are listed below and arranged into presentation sessions.
Session 1: Qualitative Reasoning
Tuesday, September 5
11:00 - 13:00 @Aula Magna
The logic of Discrete Qualitative Relations
Giulia Sindoni and John Stell
11:00 - 11:30
A New Perspective on the Mereotopology of RCC8
Michael Gruninger and Bahar Aameri
11:30 - 12:00
A Qualitative Spatial Descriptor of Group-Robot Interaction
Zoe Falomir and Cecilio Angulo
12:00 - 12:30
An Efficient Representation of General Qualitative Spatial Information using Bintrees
Leif Harald Karlsen and Martin Giese
12:30 - 13:00
Session 2: Ontology and Semantics
Tuesday, September 5
14:30 - 16:00 @Aula Magna
Urban Artefacts and their Social Role
towards an Ontology of Social Practises
Alessia Calafiore, Guido Boella, Nicola Guarino and Stefano Borgo
14:30 - 15:00
An Ontological Framework for Characterising Hydrological Flow Processes
Shirly Stephen and Torsten Hahmann
15:00 - 15:30
Classification, Individuation, and Demarcation of Forests
Formalizing the Multifaceted Semantics of Geographic Terms
Lucia Gomez Alvarez and Brandon Bennett
15:30 - 16:00
Session 3: Cognition and Learning
Wednesday, September 6
11:00 - 13:00 @Aula Magna
Targeted Cognitive Training of Spatial Skills
Perspective Taking in Robot Teleoperation
Liel Luko and Avi Parush
11:00 - 11:30
What Makes the Difference when Learning Spatial Information Using Language?
The Contribution of Visuo-Spatial Individual Factors
Chiara Meneghetti and Veronica Muffato
11:30 - 12:00
Sense of Direction
One or Two Dimensions?
Clare Davies, Lucy Athersuch and Nikki Amos
12:00 - 12:30
Global Landmarks in a Complex Indoor Environment
Cristina Robles Bahm and Stephen C. Hirtle
12:30 - 13:00
Session 4: Analysis and Computation
Wednesday, September 6
14:30 - 15:30 @Aula Magna
Evidence-Based Parametric Design
Computationally Generated Spatial Morphologies Satisfying Behavioural-Based Design Constraints
Vasiliki Kondyli, Carl Schultz and Mehul Bhatt
14:30 - 15:00
How Subdimensions of Salience Influence Each Other
Comparing Models Based on Empirical Data
Markus Kattenbeck
15:00 - 15:30
Session 5: Navigation and Wayfinding
Thursday, September 7
11:00 - 13:00 @Aula Magna
Cities Untangled
Uncovering Order in Arterial Skeletons of Road Maps
Robert Firth
11:00 - 11:30
Uncertainty in Wayfinding
A Conceptual Framework and Agent-Based Modeling
David Jonietz and Peter Kiefer
11:30 - 12:00
Timing of Pedestrian Navigation Instructions
Ioannis Giannopoulos, David Jonietz, Martin Raubal, Georgios Sarlas and Lisa Stähli
12:00 - 12:30
On Avoiding Traffic Jams with Dynamic Self-Organizing Trip Planning
Thomas Liebig and Maurice Sotzny
12:30 - 13:00
Session 6: Crowdsourcing
Thursday, September 7
14:30 - 16:00 @Aula Magna
A Crowdsourced Model of Landscape Preference
Olga Chesnokova, Mario Nowak and Ross Purves
14:30 - 15:00
Juxtaposing Thematic Regions Derived from Spatial and Platial User Generated Content
Grant McKenzie and Benjamin Adams
15:00 - 15:30
Using Flickr for Characterizing the Environment
An Exploratory Analysis
Shelan Jeawak, Christopher Jones and Steven Schockaert
15:30 - 16:00
Session 7: Geographic knowledge
Thursday, September 7
16:30 - 17:30 @Aula Magna
Defining Local Experts
Geographical Expertise as a Basis for Geographic Information Quality
Colin Robertson and Rob Feick
16:30 - 17:00
Towards a Quantum Theory of Geographic Fields
Thomas Bittner
17:00 - 17:30