Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning

The recent rise of multimedia technology has turned visual communication into an everyday reality and made it necessary to achieve a better understanding of the role of diagrams and sketches in communication and in creative thought and problem solving. Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning is a wide-ranging, multidisciplinary overview of this area, covering relevant research in computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and psychology.

Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning, M. Anderson, B. Meyer and P. Olivier (Eds.) Springer-Verlag, 2002.

Spatial Language: Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

People constantly talk to each other about experience or knowledge resulting from spatial perception, they describe size, shape, orientation and position of objects using a wide range of spatial expressions. The meaning representation used must be capable of distinguishing between fine-grained sense differences and ambiguities grounded in our experience and perceptual structure. This book reflects a commitment to the development of cognitively informed computational treatments of spatial language and spatial representation, comprising both computational work, empirical work and a combination of the two.

Spatial Language, K.R. Coventry and P. Olivier (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002

Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions

Technological advances in  multimedia, graphics, vision and speech technology are driving  research  into  new interfaces and retrieval mechanisms based on spatial dialogues and queries. Despite its increasing importance, spatial representation has been tackled as a  subproblem of many different domains, which  in turn has led  to a fragmentation of the  overall research effort. This book aims to meet the growing desire to integrate research into spatial representation and reasoning by the artificial intelligence, cognitive science and    cognitive psychology communities.

Representation & Processing of Spatial Expressions, P. Olivier and K-P. Gapp (Eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.