Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Continuity

نویسندگان

  • Shyamanta M. Hazarika
  • Anthony G. Cohn
چکیده

We explore different intuitive notions of spatio-temporal continuity and give a formal characterization of continuity for space-time histories. We investigate the types of transitions possible for the RCC-8 topological relations under each distinct notion of spatio-temporal continuity and provide a hierarchy of conceptual neighbourhood diagrams.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001