Spatial Cognition IV. Reasoning, Action, Interaction Internation
This is the fourth volume in a series of books dedicated to basic research in spatial cognition. Spatial cognition is a field that investigates the connection between the physical spatial world and the mental world. Philosophers and researchers have p- po
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Christian Freksa Markus Knauff Bernd Krieg-Brückner Bernhard Nebel Thomas Barkowsky (Eds.)
Spatial Cognition IV Reasoning, Action, Interaction International Conference Spatial Cognition 2004 Frauenchiemsee, Germany, October 11-13, 2004 Revised Selected Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Christian Freksa Bernd Krieg-Brückner Thomas Barkowsky Universität Bremen, FB 3, Mathematik und Informatik SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Bibliothekstr. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany E-mail: {freksa, bkb, barkowsky}@sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de Markus Knauff Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Abt. Kognitionswissenschaft SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Friedrichstr. 50, 79098 Freiburg, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Bernhard Nebel Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Georges-Köhler-Allee, Geb. 52 79110 Freiburg, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.4, I.2, J.2, J.4, E.1, I.3, I.7, I.6 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-25048-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11397977 06/3142 543210
Preface
This is the fourth volume in a series of books dedicated to basic research in spatial cognition. Spatial cognition is a field that investigates the connection between the physical spatial world and the mental world. Philosophers and researchers have proposed various views concerning the relation between the physical and the mental worlds: Plato considered pure concepts of thought as separate from their physical manifestations while Aristotle considered the physical and the mental realms as two aspects of the same substance. Descartes, a dualist, discussed the interaction between body and soul through an interface organ and thus introduced a functional view that presented a challenge for the natural sciences and the humanities. In modern psychology, the relation between the physical and the cognitive space has been investigated using thorough experiments, and in artificial in
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