This volume collects the papers presented at the firstinternational conference dedicated to spatial and temporalreasoning in geographic space, entitled "GIS: from space toterritory - theories and methods of spatio-temporalreasoning".

Do people understand spatial concepts: The case of first-order primitives.- Temporal databases.- People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): Beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS.- Time and space:An economic model.- The changing language of and persisting patterns in the urban design of Edo/Tokyo.- Toward a behavioral theory of regionalization.- Descriptive modeling and prescriptive modeling in spatial data handling.- The geometry of environmental knowledge.- Spatial reasoning using symbolic arrays.- Using orientation information for qualitative spatial reasoning.- The observer's point of view: An extension of symbolic projections.- Reasoning about gradual changes of topological relationships.- The meaning of “neighbour”.- A hierarchical triangle-based model for terrain description.- A model for expressing topological integrity constraints in geographic databases.- Encoding spatial information: The evidence for hierarchical processing.- Is there a relationship between spatial cognition and environmental patterns?.- Counter-intuitive geographic ‘facts’: Clues for spatial reasoning at geographic scales.- Spatial-linguistic reasoning in LEI.- User models and information theory in the design of a query interface for GIS.- A conceptual model of wayfinding using multiple levels of abstraction.- Towards acquiring spatio-temporal knowledge from sensor data.- Automatically acquiring knowledge by digital maps in artificial intelligence planning techniques.- Machine induction of geospatial knowledge.- Treatment of qualitative geographic information in monitoring environmental pollution.

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