Spatial Information Theory [electronic resource] : 11th International Conference, COSIT 2013, Scarborough, UK, September 2-6, 2013. Proceedings / edited by Thora Tenbrink, John Stell, Antony Galton, Zena Wood.

Spatial Change -- Spatial Primitives from a Cognitive Perspective: Sensitivity to Changes in Various Geometric Properties -- Transitional Spaces: Between Indoor and Outdoor Spaces -- Representing and Reasoning about Changing Spatial Extensions of Geographic Features -- Trust and Reputation Models for Quality Assessment of Human Sensor Observations -- Using Maptrees to Characterize Topological Change -- Wayfinding and Assistance -- Resolving Conceptual Mode Confusion with Qualitative Spatial Knowledge in Human-Robot Interaction -- Event Recognition during the Exploration of Line-Based Graphics in Virtual Haptic Environments -- Cognitive Transactions - A Communication Model -- Strategy-Based Dynamic Real-Time Route Prediction -- An Affordance-Based Simulation Framework for Assessing Spatial Suitability -- A Probabilistic Framework for Object Descriptions in Indoor Route Instructions -- Representing Spatial Data -- Linked Data and Time - Modeling Researcher Life Lines by Events -- Human Spatial Behavior, Sensor Informatics, and Disaggregate Data -- Comparing Expert and Non-expert Conceptualisations of the Land: An Analysis of Crowdsourced Land Cover Data -- Handling Language Data -- The Meanings of the Generic Parts of Toponyms: Use and Limitations of Gazetteers in Studies of Landscape Terms -- Creating a Corpus of Geospatial Natural Language -- Spatial Language and Computation From Descriptions to Depictions: A Conceptual Framework -- Reading Geography between the Lines: Extracting Local Place Knowledge from Text -- Modeling Spatial Knowledge from Verbal Descriptions -- A Computational Model for Reference Object Selection in Spatial Relations -- Fundamental Cognitive Concepts of Space (and Time): Using Cross-Linguistic, Crowdsourced Data to Cognitively Calibrate Modes of Overlap -- Spatial Ontology -- Kinds of Full Physical Containment -- A Vocabulary of Topological and Containment Relations for a Practical Biological Ontology -- A Geo-ontology Design Pattern for Semantic Trajectories -- Spatial Reasoning and Representation -- RCC and the Theory of Simple Regions in R2 -- The Logic of NEAR and FAR -- The Topology of Spatial Scenes in R2 -- Algebraic Properties of Qualitative Spatio-temporal Calculi.