Spatial vagueness and second-order vagueness

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 157-183

  Kulik, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axiomatics; Geographic Information Science; Higher Order Vagueness; Qualitative Spatial Representation; Spatial Vagueness

Indexed keywords

AXIOMATICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; HIGHER-ORDER; QUALITATIVE SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPATIAL VAGUENESS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 6344238079     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2003.9683760     Document Type: Article

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