TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barkowsky,Thomas
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Mental Representation and Processing of Geographic Knowledge: A Computational Approach 
T2  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
SN  - 9783540361947
AV  - Q334-342 
U1  - 006.3 23
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Computer science
KW  - Database management
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Geographical information systems
KW  - Management information systems
KW  - Computer Science
KW  - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
KW  - Computer Applications in Geosciences
KW  - Computer Science, general
KW  - Database Management
KW  - Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
KW  - Business Information Systems
N1  - State of the Art -- MIRAGE - Developing the Model -- Visual Mental Image Construction in Detail -- MIRAGE Implementation -- Conclusion and Outlook
N2  - In cognitive science, mental representations of spatial knowledge are metaphorically referred to as cognitive maps. However, investigations in cognitive psychology reveal that the cognitive map metaphor is inadequate and that more suitable conceptions of human spatial knowledge processing are needed. This book addresses mental processing of knowledge about geographic space from an AI point of view by presenting an experimental computational modeling approach. Results about human memory and visual mental imagery from cognitive psychology are combined with AI techniques of spatial and diagrammatic knowledge processing. The author develops the diagrammatic reasoning architecture MIRAGE as a comprehensive conception of human geographic knowledge processing
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36194-4
ER  -