Synopses & Reviews
The aim of this handbook is to create, for the first time, a systematic account of the field of spatial logic. The book comprises a general introduction, followed by fourteen chapters by invited authors. Each chapter provides a self-contained overview of its topic, describing the principal results obtained to date, explaining the methods used to obtain them, and listing the most important open problems. Jointly, these contributions constitute a comprehensive survey of this rapidly expanding subject.
Review
From the reviews: "Logics of space, in one guise or another, have been studied for many decades. However, recently there has been a vigorous development in this area, stimulated by new applications in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and more broadly by new attitudes to Logic which these disciplines have helped to foster. The Handbook of Spatial Logics
Review
From the reviews:
"Logics of space, in one guise or another, have been studied for many decades. However, recently there has been a vigorous development in this area, stimulated by new applications in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and more broadly by new attitudes to Logic which these disciplines have helped to foster. The Handbook of Spatial Logics
Synopsis
A spatial logic is a formal language interpreted over any class of structures featuring geometrical entities and relations, broadly construed. In the past decade, spatial logics have attracted much attention in response to developments in such diverse fields as Artificial Intelligence, Database Theory, Physics, and Philosophy. The aim of this handbook is to create, for the first time, a systematic account of the field of spatial logic. The book comprises a general introduction, followed by fourteen chapters by invited authors. Each chapter provides a self-contained overview of its topic, describing the principal results obtained to date, explaining the methods used to obtain them, and listing the most important open problems. Jointly, these contributions constitute a comprehensive survey of this rapidly expanding subject.
Synopsis
The aim of this handbook is to create, for the first time, a systematic account of the field of spatial logic. The book comprises a general introduction, followed by fourteen chapters by invited authors. Each chapter provides a self-contained overview of its topic, describing the principal results obtained to date, explaining the methods used to obtain them, and listing the most important open problems. Jointly, these contributions constitute a comprehensive survey of this rapidly expanding subject.
Table of Contents
1. What is Spatial Logic?
M. Aiello, I.Pratt-Hartmann & J.van Benthem, - 2. First-Order Mereotopology.
I.Pratt-Hartmann - 3. Axioms, Algebras and Topologies.
B. Bennett and I. Duentsch- 4. Qualitative Spatial Reasoning Using Constraint Calculi.
J. Renz and B. Nebel- 5. Modal Logics of Space.
J.van Benthem and G. Benzhanishvili - 6. Topology and Epistemic Logic.
R. Parikh, L. Moss & C. Steinsvold- 7. Logical theories for Fragments of Elementary Geometry.
P. Balbiani, V. Goranko, R. Kellerman & D. Vakarelov- 8. Locales and Toposes as Spaces.
S. Vickers- 9. Spatial Logic + Temporal Logic = ?.
R. Kontchakov, A. Kurucz, F. Wolter & M. Zakharyashchev- 10. Dynamic Topological Logic.
P. Kremer and G. Mints - 11. Logic of space-time and relativity theory.H. Andr'eka, J. Madarasz
& I. N'emeti - 12. Discrete Spatial Models. M. Smyth & J. Webster- 13. Real Algebraic Geometry and Constraint Databases.
F. Geerts and B. Kuijpers - 14. Mathematical Morphology.
I. Bloch, H. Heijmans & C.Ronse- 15. Spatial Reasoning and Ontonolgy: Parts, Wholes and Locations.
A. Varzi