Reasoning about consistency with spatial mental models: Hidden and obvious indeterminacy in spatial descriptions

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3343, Issue , 2005, Pages 165-180

  Jahn, Georg ^a,b   Johnson Laird, P N ^c   Knauff, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

SPATIAL DESCRIPTIONS; SPATIAL MENTAL MODELS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 26444450455     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-32255-9_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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