MIN Faculty
Department of Informatics
Knowledge and Language Processing

Axiomatics of Spatial Concepts

Selected Publications
  • Eschenbach, C. & Schill, K. (1999). Studying Spatial Cognition: A report on the DFG workshop on "The Representation of Motion". Künstliche Intelligenz 3/99 (pp 57-58). [längere Fassung]
  • Habel, Ch., Hildebrandt, B. & Moratz, R. (1999). Interactive Robot Navigation based on Qualitative Spatial Representations. In I. Wachsmuth & B. Jung (eds.), KogWis99 (pp. 219-224). Sankt Augustin: Infix.
  • Kulik, L. & Klippel, A. (1999). Reasoning about Cardinal Directions Using Grids as Qualitative Geographic Coordinates. In C. Freksa & D.M. Mark (1999) (eds.), Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science (pp. 205-220). Berlin: Springer.
  • Eschenbach, C. (1999). A Predication Calculus for Qualitative Spatial Representations. In C. Freksa & D.M. Mark (1999) (eds.), Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science (pp.157-172). Berlin: Springer.
  • Eschenbach, C. (1999). On Changes and Diachronic Identity of Spatial Socio-Economic Units. To appear in: A. Frank, J. Raper, J.P. Cheylan (eds., 1999). Life & Motion of Socio-economic Units. London: Taylor & Francis, GISDATA Series No. 9.
  • Tschander, L. B. (1999). Bewegung und Bewegungsverben. In I. Wachsmuth & B. Jung (eds.), KogWis99: Proceedings der 4. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft, Bielefeld (pp. 25-30). Sankt Augustin: Infix.
  • Eschenbach, C., Habel, Ch. & Kulik, L. (1999). Representing Simple Trajectories as Oriented Curves. In A.N. Kumar & I. Russell (eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International FLAIRS Conference (pp. 431-436). Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press.
  • Hedda R. Schmidtke (1999). Relative Lokalisierung ausgedehnter Objekte in 2-dimensionalen Layouts. Diplomarbeit, Universität Hamburg. [PDF] [Postscript 3.1MB]
  • Kammann, Tobias (1999). Qualitative Relationen für Intervalle in verzweigten gerichteten Strukturen. Diplomarbeit. Universität Hamburg. [PDF-File] [PS-File]
  • Kulik, Lars & Eschenbach, Carola (1999). A geometry of oriented curves. Report from the project 'Axiomatics of Spatial Concepts'. University of Hamburg, Department for Informatics. Hamburg.[download PDF-File]
  • Eschenbach, C., Habel, C., Kulik, L. & Leßmöllmann, A. (1998). Shape nouns and shape concepts: A geometry for "corner". In C. Freksa, C. Habel & K. F. Wender (eds.), Spatial cognition. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Representing and Processing Spatial Knowledge (pp. 177-210). Berlin: Springer.
  • Eschenbach, C., Habel, Ch. & Leßmöllmann, A. (1998). Multiple frames of reference in interpretating complex projective terms. To appear in Patrick Olivier (ed.), Spatial Language: Cognitive and Computational Aspects. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
  • Habel, Ch. (1998). Piktorielle Repräsentationen als unterbestimmte räumliche Modelle. Kognitionswissenschaft, 7, 58-67.
  • Habel, Ch. (1998). Drehsinn und Reorientierung - Modus und Richtung beim Bewegungsverb drehen. G. Rickheit (ed.), Richtungen im Raum, Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
  • Kulik, L. (1998). Zur Grenzziehung zwischen Rand, Grenze und Begrenzung. In U. Kotkamp & W. Krause (eds.), Intelligente Informationsverarbeitung (pp. 9-16). Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag.
  • Eschenbach, C. & Kulik, L. (1997). An axiomatic approach to the spatial relations underlying 'left'-'right' and 'in front of'-'behind'. In G. Brewka, C. Habel & B. Nebel (eds.), KI-97 -- Advances in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 207-218). Berlin: Springer.
  • Habel, C. & Eschenbach, C. (1997). Abstract structures in spatial cognition. In C. Freksa, M. Jantzen & R. Valk (eds.), Foundations of Computer Science. Potential -- Theory -- Cognition (pp. 369-378). Berlin: Springer.
  • Leßmöllmann, A., Eschenbach, C. & Habel, C. (1997). Multiple Referenzrahmen: Der Fall oben über der Tür. In W. Krause, U. Kotkamp & R. Goertz (eds.), KogWis97. Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (pp. 119-121). Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
Publications
  • Eschenbach, C., Habel, C., and Leßmöllmann, A. (2002): Multiple frames of reference in interpretating complex projective terms. In K. R. Coventry and P. Olivier, Spatial Language: Cognitive and Computational Perspectives, page(s) 209-231. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2002.
  • Kulik, L., Eschenbach, C., Habel, Ch. and Schmidtke, H. R. (2002): A graded approach to directions between extended objects. In M. J. Egenhofer and D. M. Mark, Geographic Information Science. Second international conference, GIScience 2002, Boulder, CO, USA, page(s) 119-131. Springer, Berlin, 2002. (Springer)
  • Habel, Ch. (2001): Verbs and directions. The 2nd Annual Language and Space Workshop: Defining Functional and Spatial Features. In Carlson, Laura and Emile van der Zee,Functional and Spatial Features in Language and Space. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001.
  • Eschenbach, C., Habel, C., and Kulik, L. (1999): Representing Simple Trajectories as Oriented Curves. In A. N. Kumar and I. Russell,Proceedings of the 12th International FLAIRS Conference, page(s) 431-436. AAAI Press, Orlando, Florida, 1999 (.pdf)
  • Eschenbach, C. (1999): A Predication Calculus for Qualitative Spatial Representations. In C. Freksa and D. M. Mark,Spatial information theory - Cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science (COSIT '99), page(s) 157-172. Springer, Berlin, 1999 (Springer)
  • Eschenbach, C., and Schill, K. (1999): Studying spatial cognition: A report on the DFG workshop on 'The representation of Motion'. In Kuenstliche Intelligenz, volume 3, page(s) 57-58. 1999 (Eine längere Version ist auch online verfügbar)
  • Habel, C.; Hildebrandt, B. & Moratz, R. (1999): Interactive robot navigation based on qualitative spatial representations. In: Wachsmuth, I. & Jung, B. (eds.): KogWis99: Proceedings der 4. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. Bielefeld, 28. September - 1. Oktober 1999 .Sankt Augustin (Infix) 1999, pp. 219-224
  • Kammann, Tobias (1999). Qualitative Relationen für Intervalle in verzweigten gerichteten Strukturen. Diplomarbeit. Universität Hamburg. [PDF-File] [PS-File]
  • Kulik, L. & Eschenbach, C. (1999): A geometry of oriented curves. Report from the project 'Axiomatics of Spatial Concepts'. University of Hamburg, Department for Informatics. Hamburg, 1999. (.pdf)
  • Kulik, L., and Klippel, A. (1999) : Reasoning about Cardinal Directions Using Grids as Qualitative Geographic Coordinates. In C. Freksa and D. M. Mark,Spatial information theory- Cognitive and computational foundations of geographic information science (COSIT '99), page(s) 205-220. Springer, Berlin, 1999
  • Moratz, R., and Habel, C. (1999): Interactive Robot Navigation Using a Cognitively Motivated Partition of the Spatial Context. Proceedings of the IJCAI '99 Workshop on Robot Action Planning. 1999
  • Schmidtke, H. R. (1999): Ein formaler Ansatz für die relative Lokalisierung ausgedehnter Objekte in 2-dimensionalen Layouts. Universität Hamburg, Deutschland, 1999
  • Tschander, L. B. (1999): Bewegung und Bewegungsverben. In I. Wachsmuth and B. Jung,KogWis99: Proceedings der 4. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft, page(s) 25-30. Infix, Sankt Augustin, 1999
  • Eschenbach, C., Habel, C., Kulik, L., and Leßmöllmann, A. (1998): Shape nouns and shape concepts: A geometry for "corner". In C. Freksa, C. Habel, and K. F. Wender, Spatial Cognition I - An interdisciplinary approach to representing and processing spatial knowledge, page(s) 177-201. Springer, Berlin. (Springer)
  • Habel, C. : Piktorielle Repräsentationen als unterbestimmte räumliche Modelle. In Kognitionswissenschaft, volume 7, nr. 2, page(s) 58-67. 1998
  • Habel, C. : Drehsinn und Reorientierung - Modus und Richtung beim Bewegungsverb drehen. In G. Rickheit,Richtungen im Raum, page(s) 101-128. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, 1998
  • Kulik, L. : Zur Grenzziehung zwischen Rand, Grenze und Begrenzung. In U. Kotkamp and W. Krause,Intelligente Informationsverarbeitung, page(s) 9-16. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden, 1998
  • Eschenbach, C., Habel, C., and Leßmöllmann, A. (1997). The interpretation of complex spatial relations by integrating frames of reference. In P. Olivier, Working notes of the Workshop "Language and Space", (AAAI-97). pages 45-56. Rhode Island. (.pdf)
  • Eschenbach, C., and Kulik, L. (1997). An axiomatic approach to the spatial relations underlying "left"-"right" and "in front of"-"behind". In G. Brewka, C. Habel, and B. Nebel, KI'97: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. pages 207-218. Springer. Berlin. (Springer)
  • Habel, Christopher & Carola Eschenbach (1997). Abstract structures in spatial cognition. In C. Freksa, M. Jantzen & R. Valk (eds.), Foundations of Computer Science. Potential - Theory - Cognition (pp. 369-378). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (Springer)
  • Habel, Ch. (1997). Discours et représentations spatiales dans la description de plans. In M. Denis, Langage et cognition spatiale. pages 103-126. Masson
  • Kaup, B., Kelter, S., Habel, C., and Clauser, C. (1997). Zur Wahl des repräsentierten Raumausschnitts beim Aufbau mentaler Modelle während der Textrezeption. In C. Umbach, M. Grabski, and R. Hörnig, Perspektive in Sprache und Raum, Studien zur Kognitionswissenschaft. pages 61-79. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag. Wiesbaden
  • Kulik, L. (1997). Zur Grenzziehung zwischen Rand und Grenze. In W. Krause, U. Kotkamp, and R. Goertz, KogWis97: Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. pages 104-106. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität. Jena
  • Leßmöllmann, A., Eschenbach, C., and Habel, C. (1997). Multiple Referenzrahmen: Der Fall oben über der Tür. In W. Krause, U. Kotkamp, and R. Goertz, KogWis97: Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. pages 119-121. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität. Jena. (.pdf)