The goal of this chapter is to analyse major challenges in the development of Intelligent
Environmental Decision Support Systems (IEDSS), to review some possible approaches …

Analysis of global geographic phenomena requires non-planar models. In the past, models
for topological relations have focused either on a twodimensional or a three-dimensional …

The representation of geographical objects with vague or fuzzy boundaries still poses a
challenge to current geographical information systems. The paper presents a geometric …

We consider the language obtained by mixing the model of the regions and the
propositional linear temporal logic. In particular, we propose alternative languages where …

Topological relations are the predominant backbone of qualitative spatial reasoning,
focusing to date mostly on objects that are embedded in R 2. With the advent of ball-shaped …

Temporal and spatial reasoning is a central task for numerous applications in many areas of
artificial intelligence. For this task, numerous formalisms using the qualitative approach have …