A geometric theory of vague boundaries based on supervaluation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2205, Issue , 2001, Pages 44-59

  Kulik, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axiomatics; Geography; Geometry; Spatial reasoning; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; INFORMATION USE;

AXIOMATICS; GEOGRAPHICAL OBJECTS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOMETRIC THEORY; NUMERICAL REPRESENTATION; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIAL REASONING; VAGUENESS;

FUZZY SET THEORY;

EID: 84937543499     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45424-1_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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