Naming topological operators at GIS user interfaces

Proceedings 2005 - The 8th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, AGILE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Riedemann, Catharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Formal models; GIS; Human subject testing; Natural language; Topological operators; Topological relations; User interface

Indexed keywords

FORMAL MODEL; GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SPATIAL QUERIES; SYSTEM CONCEPTS; TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; TOPOLOGY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84874258533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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