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SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: We propose a modular ontology of the dynamic features of reality.This amounts, on the one hand, to a purely spatial ontology supporting snapshot views of the world at successive instants of time and, on the other hand, to a purely spatiotemporal ontology of change and process.We argue that dynamic spatial ontology must combine these two distinct types of inventory of the entities and relationships in reality, and we provide characterizations of spatiotemporal reasoning in the light of the interconnections between them.

Source: Spatial Cognition and Computation

DOI: 10.1207/s15427633scc0401_5

Authors: Pierre Grenon, Barry Smith

Institutions: Leipzig University, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Language: English

Topic: Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

Award: Geographic Categories: An Ontological Investigation