Review of “Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning” (A. G. Coh and J. Renz, 2007)

Now that I have a better understanding of QSR and the theory behind it, I thought it would be a good idea to reread some articles. I often find, that I can gain greater understanding about research by re-reading articles. This particular article by Cohn and Renz part of a book on Knowledge Representation (KR) (A. G. Cohn and J. Renz, Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning, in: F. van Hermelen, V. Lifschitz, B. Porter, eds., Handbook of Knowledge Representation, Elsevier, 551-596, 2008. ). I had already reread sections 1.1 and 1.2 when I thought of writing about it, so my thoughts on those sections will come at a later point.

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What is Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

I’m working on a new project in the field of bio-informatics, about which I will write at a later point. As part of that project, I’m looking at spatio-temporal reasoning. I did some high level research and eventually found the field of qualitative spatial reasoning (QSR), a subfield of AI. QSR seems to provide solutions to problems similar to ours and I decided to explore further. Read more »