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Qualitative reasoning about space and time - reasoning at the human level - promises to become a fundamental aspect of future systems that will accompany us in daily activity. This work gives a picture of current research in qualitative reasoning about space and time, focusing on both representational and computational issues. It emphasizes some major lines of development in this multifaceted area. The book shows some common ground and a novel combination of spatial and temporal aspects of qualitative reasoning. Topics covered include: spatial representation and reasoning; research in temporal reasoning; the ontological status of spatial entities; the theory of reasoning with qualitative relations about regions; the spatial needs of geographical information systems; and the linguistic expression of spatial relations.

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Oliviero Stock is the Head of the Cognitive and Communication Technologies Division at the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) in Trento, Italy. His main research activities are artificial intelligence, natural language processing, intelligent interfaces and human-computer interaction. He has been the President of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Chairman of the European coordinating committee for Artificial Intelligence.

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