Application of supervaluation semantics to vaguely defined spatial concepts

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

Volumn 2205, Issue , 2001, Pages 108-123

  Bennett, Brandon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concept definitions; Logic; Spatial information systems; Supervaluation semantics; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPT DEFINITIONS; LOGIC; SPATIAL CONCEPTS; SPATIAL DOMAINS; SPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VAGUENESS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84937567739     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45424-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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