An argument that qualitative representations—symbolic representations that carve continuous phenomena into meaningful units—are central to human cognition.

This book develops, for the first time, a qualitative model for the representation of spatial knowledge based only on locative relations between the objects inv

The ability to reason qualitatively about physical systems is important to understanding and interacting with the world for both humans and intelligent machines

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Biologically Motivated Computer Vision, BMCV 2002, held in Tübingen, Ger

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Th