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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Anthony G. Cohn David M. Mark (Eds.)

Spatial Information Theory International Conference, COSIT 2005 Ellicottville, NY, USA, September 14-18, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Anthony G. Cohn University of Leeds, School of Computing Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK E-mail: [email protected] David M. Mark University at Buffalo, Department of Geography 105 Wilkeson, North Campus, Buffalo, NY 14261-0023, USA, E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005932208 CR Subject Classification (1998): E.1, I.2, F.1, H.2.8, H.1, J.2 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

This volume contains the papers presented at the “Conference on Spatial Information Theory”, held in Ellicottville, New York in September 2005. COSIT 2005 was the 7th International Conference held under the COSIT name. When Andrew Frank and his colleagues organized the first COSIT conference on the island of Elba, Italy, in 1993, it represented the maturing of an international research community that had already met four or five times in the United States, Spain, and Italy. Of course, cognitive and computational approaches to space and spatial phenomena were not themselves new topics, but a context of providing theoretical underpinning for geographic information sys