This is an anthology of refereed papers arranged to acknowledge the work of Wilfried Brauer on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It contains 49 papers organized in topical sections on computer science and its potential, social implications of computer science, formal languages and automata, structures and complexity theory, Petri nets, systems analysis and distributed systems, software engineering and verification, cognition and artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, neural networks and robotics, and language and information systems.

This is the fourth volume in a series of books dedicated to basic research in spatial cognition. Spatial cognition is a field that investigates the connection between the physical spatial world and the mental world. Philosophers and researchers have p- posed various views concerning the relation between the physical and the mental worlds: Plato considered pure concepts of thought as separate from their physical manifestations while Aristotle considered the physical and the mental realms as two aspects of the same substance. Descartes, a dualist, discussed the interaction between body and soul...

The Conference on Spatial Information Theory - COSIT - grew out of a series of workshops / NATO Advanced Study Institutes / NSF specialist meetings concerned with cognitive and applied aspects of representing large-scale space, particularly geographic space. In these meetings, the need for a well-founded theory of spatial information processing was identified. The COSIT conference series was established in 1993 as a biennial interdisciplinary European conference on the representation and processing of information about large-scale space, after a successful international conference on the...

Veranstaltet von Arbeitskreis Kognition im Fachausschuss 1.2, Kunstliche Intelligenz und Mustererkennung, Gesellschaft fur Informatik und Munchner Arbeitskreis fur Kunstliche Intelligenz und Cognitive Science"

Durch die Reihe der GI-Kongresse uber wissensbasierte Systeme wird eine grossere Offentlichkeit uber den Stand der Entwicklung sowohl in den Entwurfsmethoden und Konstruktionstechniken als auch in der industriellen Anwendung unterrichtet. Ein wichtiges Ziel ist dabei, auf das grosse Potential an Anwendungsmoglichkeiten hinzuweisen und intensivere Kooperation zwischen verschiedenen Gebieten anzuregen. Behandelt werden diesmal neben den Grundlagen, Entwicklungen und Anwendungen von Expertensystemen auch maschinelles Lernen, naturlichsprachliche Systeme und Konnektionismus. Einen grossen Raum...

Ein zentraler Problemkreis der neueren KI-Forschung ist die Reprasentation des Gegenstandlichen. Insbesondere stellt sich die Frage, wie raumliche Konstellationen zu reprasentieren und zu verarbeiten sind. Primares Ziel des vorliegenden Bandes ist es, einen Uberblick uber die aktuelle Forschung im Bereich von Reprasentation und Verarbeitung raumlichen Wissens zu geben. Die Beitrage des Bandes decken das gesamte Spektrum der kognitionsorientierten KI-Forschung ab, von Arbeiten, die, in der Tradition der Kybernetik bzw. Neurophysiologie stehend, Aspekte der Raumorientierung in biologischen...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Spatial Cognition 2014, held in Bremen, Germany, in September 2014. The 27 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on spatial memory; language and communication; wayfinding and navigation; computational models; diagrams and maps; technical approaches; and spatial ability.