Topologically Characterized Movement Patterns: A Cognitive Assessment

Klippel, Alexander

doi:10.1080/13875860903039172

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“…Particular research attention has been devoted to topological calculi such as the region connection calculus (Randell et al 1992) and the 4/9 intersection models (Egenhofer and Franzosa 1991). Early research focused on static spatial relations (Mark and Egenhofer 1994;Knauff et al 1997;Renz 2002), while more recent research has addressed geographic movement patterns and events (Klippel 2009;Klippel and Li 2009 ontologies. Ontologies assist in information sharing by aligning semantic similarities and differences across different knowledge domains (Gruber 1993;Gruber 1995).…”

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Cartography and Geographic Information Science

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“…For instance, honey bees [29] and humans [30] have been shown to be more sensitive to (static) topological properties of objects (such as connectivity, presence versus absence of holes) than to local features distinguishing the objects (but see [32] , [33] for criticism). In a similar vein, changing topological relations in geographic events (e.g., the motion of a hurricane relative to a peninsula) are, next to non-topological features, used for their categorization [31] , [53] . How such changes map onto phase flow patterns remains to be seen, however.…”

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“…Outside of the motor control domain, the notion of primitives is debated in the context of visual perception, where Marr's [28] proposal that local geometrical properties serve as visual primitives has dominated the debate for a long time. Recently, however, evidence was found that the topologies of static [29] , [30] as well as dynamic [31] visual scenes count as primitives underlying pattern recognition (see [32] and [33] for contrasting views).…”

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Complex Processes from Dynamical Architectures with Time-Scale Hierarchy

2011

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The idea that complex motor, perceptual, and cognitive behaviors are composed of smaller units, which are somehow brought into a meaningful relation, permeates the biological and life sciences. However, no principled framework defining the constituent elementary processes has been developed to this date. Consequently, functional configurations (or architectures) relating elementary processes and external influences are mostly piecemeal formulations suitable to particular instances only. Here, we develop a general dynamical framework for distinct functional architectures characterized by the time-scale separation of their constituents and evaluate their efficiency. Thereto, we build on the (phase) flow of a system, which prescribes the temporal evolution of its state variables. The phase flow topology allows for the unambiguous classification of qualitatively distinct processes, which we consider to represent the functional units or modes within the dynamical architecture. Using the example of a composite movement we illustrate how different architectures can be characterized by their degree of time scale separation between the internal elements of the architecture (i.e. the functional modes) and external interventions. We reveal a tradeoff of the interactions between internal and external influences, which offers a theoretical justification for the efficient composition of complex processes out of non-trivial elementary processes or functional modes.

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“…Supported by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the GeoVISTA Center of The Pennsylvania State University initiated the GeoCAM project (Geographic Contextualization for Accounts of Movement) for representing, extracting, mapping and interpreting textual movement references in 2007. The GeoCAM project aims to build the conceptual and theoretical data model framework needed to represent, extract, map and interpret geographic accounts of movement found in historical books (Turton and MacEachren, 2008;Klippel, 2009). Furthermore, some applications have been realized by extracting and utilizing spatio-temporal factors from historical books in different ways (Gu et al, 2008;Zhou et al, 2008;Chen, 2009).…”

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An Approach to Transform Chinese Historical Books into Scenario-based Historical Maps

Chen

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The Cartographic Journal

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Spatio-temporal information (e.g. time, location, person and event) recorded in detail in vast Chinese historical books can provide evidence about the movement of entities (e.g. people, family, army and weapons) and their underlying spatial behaviours. Furthermore, this information largely reflects the process of social development, which makes it valuable to both professional research and public awareness. However, this information cannot be easily expressed and visually utilized because it is often hidden in the text of historical books. Aiming to better realize the potential value of such abundant information derived from historical books and bridging the gap between historical research and geographic space, a feasible and appropriate approach is explored in this article, to guide the transforming process from historical books to historical maps. The hope is that providing the scenarios of historical events will benefit related historical and social research. First, the integral framework of the approach was introduced, and the detail of building the specific spatiotemporal framework for information matching was discussed. Based on the spatio-temporal framework, the specification for the representation of historical books was designed. By extracting the spatio-temporal data from historical books, organizing them according to the specification and matching them with the spatio-temporal framework, the scenarios of historical events in the book (e.g. wars, migration, diseases, natural disasters, mass movement, etc.) can be visually transformed into historical maps. As the most critical writing of the Chinese Twenty-Four Histories, the Records of the Grand Historian (also known as Shiji) was employed as an example to test the proposed approach.

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Topologically Characterized Movement Patterns: A Cognitive Assessment

Cited by 10 publications

References 66 publications

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Complex Processes from Dynamical Architectures with Time-Scale Hierarchy

An Approach to Transform Chinese Historical Books into Scenario-based Historical Maps

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