Qualitative reasoning about space and time - a reasoning at the human level - promises to become a fundamental aspect of future systems that will accompany us i

This volume collects the papers presented at the first international conference dedicated to spatial and temporal reasoning in geographic space, entitled "GIS:

In an effort to further investigation into critical development facets of geographic information systems (GIS), this book explores the reasoning processes that

Starting with an updated description of Allen's calculus, the book proceeds with a description of the main qualitative calculi which have been developed over th