The Mercator Representation of Spatial Knowledge
Abstract
The MERCATOR program constructs a cognitive map from a sequence of scene descriptions. A new representation of two-dimensional geography was developed for this program. Objects are represented by sets of polygons; their boundaries, by sets of directed edges. The relative positions of objects are determined by connecting edges. A truth-conditional semantics for this representation is presented, its strengths and weaknesses are evaluated, and it is compared to other AI representations of shape and position.
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Davis. "The Mercator Representation of Spatial Knowledge." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.Markdown
[Davis. "The Mercator Representation of Spatial Knowledge." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1983/davis1983ijcai-mercator/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{davis1983ijcai-mercator,
title = {{The Mercator Representation of Spatial Knowledge}},
author = {Davis, Ernest},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1983},
pages = {295-301},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1983/davis1983ijcai-mercator/}
}