dc.contributor.author | Galton, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-28T10:35:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-04-19 | |
dc.description.abstract | Whereas mereology, in the strict sense, is concerned solely with the part–whole relation, mereotopology extends mereology by including also the notion of connection, enabling one to distinguish, for example, between internal and peripheral parts, and between contact and separation. Mereotopology has been developed particularly within the Qualitative Spatial Reasoning research community, where it has been applied to, amongst other areas, geographical information science and image analysis. Most research in mereotopology has assumed that the entities being studied may be subdivided without limit, but a number of researchers have investigated mereotopological structures based on discrete spaces in which entities are built up from atomic elements that are not themselves subdivisible. This chapter presents an introductory treatment of mereotopology and its discrete variant, and
provides references for readers interested in pursuing this subject in further detail. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 371 of the series Syntheses Library, Chapter 11, pp. 293 - 321 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/978-3-319-05356-1 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19396 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-05356-1_11 | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2014, Springer International Publishing Switzerland | en_GB |
dc.title | Discrete Mereotopology | en_GB |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-28T10:35:23Z | |
dc.contributor.editor | Calosi, C | |
dc.contributor.editor | Graziani, P | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-319-05355-4 | |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Mereology and the Sciences: Parts and Wholes in the Contemporary Scientific Context | |
dc.description | Published | en_GB |