SFB/TR 8 Colloquia


Locations Geb. 106, Raum 04-007, Informatik, Universität Freiburg
Cartesium Rotunde (00.067), Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 5, Universität Bremen
Upcoming Colloquia
Prof.Sanjiang Li : "Title to be announced"
SFB- Talk | 21.06.2013

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Matt Duckham & Mike Worboys: "Title to be announced"
SFB- Talk | 28.06.2013

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Uli Furbach: "Title to be announced"
SFB- Talk | 12.07.2013

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Past Colloquia
Alexander Klippel: "Crowdsourcing for Behavioral Spatial Science"
SFB- Talk | 14.06.2013

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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John Kelleher: "Dublin Institute of Technology"
SFB- Talk | 24.05.2013

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Mehul Bhatt and Carl Schulz: "Holistic Spatial Design"
SFB- Talk | 26.04.2013

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Sabine Timpf: "How space structures activities"
Talk | 22.03.2013

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Barbara Kaup: "Grounding meaning in experience: Spatial compatibility effects in word and sentence processing"
SFB- Talk | 08.03.2013

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Mehul Bhatt: "Cognitive Computing for People-Centred Architecture Design"
Talk | 12.02.2013

Speaker's Homepage

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK). www.h-w-k.de/
19:00 h

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Elisabeth Andre: "Bridging the Gap between Social Computing and Pervasive Computing: Synergies and Challenges"
SFB- Talk | 11.01.2013

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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SFB Mitgliederversammlung: "SFB Mitgliederversammlung"
Talk | 14.12.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Takeshi Shirabe: "Digital spatial planning boards: digital media on which humans design spatial plans"
SFB- Talk | 07.12.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
14:30 h

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Dr. Christian Becker-Asano: "To help or not to help? On strategic behavior in virtual emergencies"
Talk | 23.11.2012

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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Mitja Lustrek: "The Confidence system: A glance into the future of elderly care"
SFB- Talk | 09.11.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Mehul Bhatt : "Human-Centred Cognitive Computing: How can it assist and empower people?"
Talk | 29.10.2012

Speaker's Homepage

Haus der Wissenschaft | Sandstraße 4/5 | 28195 Bremen
18:00 h

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Prof. Wai Yeap: "Towards a theory of spatial cognition"
SFB- Talk | 19.10.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Dr. Mohammad Obaid: "The Human Interface Technology Lab New Zealand (HITLabNZ) and my work on virtual agents and humanoid robots"
SFB- Talk | 17.08.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Paulo Santos: "Reasoning about Space and Robotic Perception"
Talk | 20.07.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Dedre Gentner & Ken Forbus: "Humboldt lecture "
SFB- Talk | 13.07.2012

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Cartesium Bremen
15:30 h

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Prof. Natheer Khasawneh: "Overview of My Research"
SFB- Talk | 06.07.2012

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Cartesium, bremen
15:30 h

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Monika Sester: "Geosensor networks – current research at ikg"
SFB- Talk | 08.06.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Mehul Bhatt : "The Shape of Empty Space"
SFB- Talk | 11.05.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Stephen Hirtle: ""Geographical Design""
SFB- Talk | 20.04.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Prof. Dr. Jean-Yves Beziau: "The power of the Hexagon"
SFB- Talk | 27.01.2012

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15:30 h

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Matthias Scheutz: "Title to be announced"
SFB- Talk | 13.01.2012

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Tobias Meilinger: "Spatial integration within environmental spaces"
SFB- Talk | 09.12.2011

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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Evelyn Ferstl: "Spatial cognition in map-aided wayfinding and narrative comprehension"
SFB- Talk | 25.11.2011

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15:30 h

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Dino Borri & Domenico Camarda: "The roles of memory organization and creativity in spatial planning and architecture"
SFB- Talk | 04.11.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Stephan Winter: "Title to be announced"
SFB- Talk | 21.10.2011

Speaker's Homepage


15:30 h

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IRTG: "IRTG"
Talk | 30.09.2011

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15:00 h

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Stephen Marsland: "Does my brain look big in this?"
SFB- Talk | 30.09.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Tom Bittner: "To be announced"
SFB- Talk | 09.09.2011

Speaker's Homepage

Rotunde, Cartesium
15:30 h

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Kenneth D. Forbus: "Sketching our way to human-level AI"
Talk | 06.09.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
11:00 h

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David J. Field, Cornell University: "Sparseness, invariance and independent coding in the visual system"
SFB- Talk | 21.07.2011

Speaker's Homepage

Cartesium, Bremen
14:00 h

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Till Mossakowski & Oliver Kutz: "DO-ROAM: Ontology-Based Search and Navigation with OpenStreetMap"
SFB- Talk | 08.07.2011

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15:30 h

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Michael Spranger: "Title to be announced"
SFB- Talk | 01.07.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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No Speaker - Blocked for IRTG proposal defense: ""Title to be announced""
SFB- Talk | 24.06.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Antje Krumnack: "Directionality in Spatial Representations - Results from Spatial Belief Revision Research"
SFB- Talk | 17.06.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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B. Chandrasekaran : "Title to be announced"
SFB- Talk | 10.06.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Dr.-Ing. Stefan Glasauer : "The Hippocampus, a Cognitive Map?"
SFB- Talk | 13.05.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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PD Dr. Chris(tiane) Lange-Kuettner: "The Role of Infants’ Eye-Hand Coordination in Visual Field Perception"
SFB- Talk | 06.05.2011

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Bremen
15:30 h

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Jeffrey M. Zacks: "Mental transformations of objects and perspective"
SFB- Talk | 29.04.2011

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Cartesium Bremen
15:30 h

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Stefano Borgo: "Making sense of concepts in foundational ontology"
SFB- Talk | 15.04.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Thora Tenbrink/ Werner Kuhn: ""Modelling reference frames of space and time in language""
SFB- Talk | 08.04.2011

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Cartesium Bremen
15:30 h

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Mehul Bhatt & Carl Schulz: "The Space in DesignSpace"
SFB- Talk | 01.04.2011

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Cartesium Bremen
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Dr. Ian Pratt-Hartmann: "Topological Logics of Euclidean Spaces"
SFB- Talk | 11.03.2011

Speaker's Homepage

Bremen
15:30 h

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Christian Derix: "Computational Heuristics for Spatial Planning"
SFB- Talk | 25.02.2011

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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Hugo Spiers: "Dynamics of human brain activity during navigation"
SFB- Talk | 11.02.2011

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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Katharine S. Willis: "Wayfinding Situations"
SFB- Talk | 07.01.2011

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Martijn van Otterlo: "THEORY AND PRACTICE OF RELATIONAL DECISION-THEORETIC PROBLEMS"
SFB- Talk | 08.12.2010

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Prof. Dr. Annette Leßmöllmann: "Cognitive Science and the Media (Make friends before you need them)"
SFB- Talk | 12.11.2010

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Cartesium Bremen
15:30 h

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Stephen Hirtle: ""This is the tricky part: When directions become difficult""
SFB- Talk | 29.10.2010

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Bremen
15:30 h

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Martin V. Butz: "Interactive, Sensorimotor Spaces: Autonomous Learning and Behavioral Control "
SFB- Talk | 22.10.2010

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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Holly A. Taylor: "It's six of one and a half dozen of the other (or is it?): A perspective dependent route selection bias"
SFB- Talk | 24.09.2010

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Christoph Schlieder: "Computing in the Cultural Sciences"
SFB- Talk | 16.07.2010

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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John Gero: "NEW APPROACHES TO STUDYING DESIGN COGNITION"
SFB- Talk | 09.07.2010

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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Angela Schwering: "SketchMapia: A Framework for Collaborative Mapping"
SFB- Talk | 02.07.2010

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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Nora Newcombe: "The Geometric Module Debate "
SFB- Talk | 18.06.2010

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Cartesium Bremen
15:30 h

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Markus Knauff: "Belief revision in spatial reasoning"
SFB- Talk | 12.02.2010

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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Dan Montello: "Regions and Regionalization in Spatial Cognition"
SFB- Talk | 18.12.2009

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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SFB/ TR8: "15:30 SFB/TR 8 General Meeting (Rotunde)"
Talk | 11.12.2009

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Rotunde
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Shyamanta M. Hazarika: "Qualitative Spatial Change in Mereotopology"
SFB- Talk | 04.12.2009

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Bremen
15:30 h

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Hedda Schmidtke: "Spatial Cognition on Ambient Intelligence Wireless Sensor Networks"
SFB- Talk | 27.11.2009

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Bremen
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Dr. Alexander Klippel: "A Geographic Perspective on Spatial Cognition"
SFB- Talk | 06.11.2009

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Cartesium Bremen
15:30 h

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Stefan Münzer, Christoph Stahl: "Supporting Indoor Wayfinding: An Introduction to the YAMAMOTO Modeling & Design Toolkit and a Study of Automatically Generated Visual Route Instructions"
SFB- Talk | 16.10.2009

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Freiburg
15:30 h

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Lynn Liben: "Spatial Foundations of Map Use: Insights and Puzzles from Developmental Psychology"
SFB- Talk | 14.10.2009

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Freiburg
16:00 h

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Anthony Cohn: "Steps Towards Cognitive Vision"
SFB- Talk | 09.10.2009

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Klaus Gramann: "Mobile Brain/Body Imaging - A new method to investigate natural spatial cognition'"
SFB- Talk | 05.10.2009

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Freiburg
10:00 h

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Dr. Sanjiang Li : "Topological Representation and Reasoning: Progresses and Problems"
SFB- Talk | 18.09.2009

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Cartesium Bremen
15:15 h

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Prof. Dr. Ramon Lopez de Mantaras: ""Beyond individualism: Action selection in cooperative robot soccer using case-based reasoning""
SFB- Talk | 28.08.2009

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Cartesium
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Roy Ruddle: "Body-based information and the acquisition of spatial knowledge"
SFB- Talk | 21.08.2009

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Prof. Dr. Werner Kuhn and IRTG Doctoral Students: "Introducing the IRTG Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information"
SFB- Talk | 24.07.2009

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Cartesium, Bremen
15:30 h

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Matt Duckham: ""Computing somewhere": Decentralized spatial computing for geosensor networks"
Talk | 20.07.2009

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Bremen
16:15 h

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Jens Hoheisel: "Schutzrechte im SFB/TR 8"
SFB- Talk | 03.07.2009

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15:30 h

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Dr. Lars Kulik: "Trends in location privacy: what has been achieved and where are we heading?"
SFB- Talk | 25.06.2009

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Cartesium, Bremen
16:00 h

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Kai-Florian Richter: "TomTom, Google und Du: Menschliches Wegfinden und automatische Assistenz"
SFB- Talk | 06.06.2009

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Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße 4/5, 28195 Bremen
11:00 h

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Hanant Samet: "SPATIAL DATABASES AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS"
SFB- Talk | 02.06.2009

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11:00 h

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Franziska Zacharias, DLR: "The Capability Map for Robot Arms and Applications "
SFB- Talk | 29.05.2009

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15:30 h

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Tom Bittner: "Vague region-based geometry and the formal ontology of material entities"
SFB- Talk | 26.05.2009

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11:00 h

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Inderjeet Mani: "Processing Geographic Language"
SFB- Talk | 11.05.2009

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Cartesium
11:00 h

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Prof. Justus Piater Ph. D.: "Visuomotor Learning for Interaction"
SFB- Talk | 20.04.2009 - 00.00.0000

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17:00 h

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Prof. Laura Carlson, University of Notre Dame, Indiana: "Space matters for spatial language, but so do function and action (sometimes)"
SFB- Talk | 09.03.2009

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Cartesium
11:15 h

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Manuel Bodirsky: "Constraint Satisfaction Complexity in Spatial and Temporal Reasoning"
SFB- Talk | 20.02.2009

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Freiburg, Geb.106-04-007 (Informatik, Georges-Koehler-Allee)
15:30 h

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Yohei Kurata: ""Toward Qualitative Spatial Reasoning on the Arrangements of Multi-Domain Objects""
SFB- Talk | 30.01.2009

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Bremen, Cartesium, Rotunde
15:30 h

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Heinrich Herre: "Principles of Ontological Modeling"
SFB- Talk | 23.01.2009

Speaker's Homepage

Rotunde; Cartesium
15:30 h

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Ruth Conroy-Dalton : "+++ Postponed +++"
SFB- Talk | 19.12.2008

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Freiburg, Geb.106-04-007 (Informatik, Georges-Koehler-Allee)
15:30 h

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Lars Konieczny : "+++ Postponed +++"
SFB- Talk | 12.12.2008

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Freiburg, Geb.106-04-007 (Informatik, Georges-Koehler-Allee)
15:30 h

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Maren Bennewitz: "Natural Interaction with and Robust Navigation for Humanoid Robots"
SFB- Talk | 05.12.2008

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Freiburg, Geb.106-04-007 (Informatik, Georges-Koehler-Allee)
15:30 h

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Mehul Bhatt: "Toward Integrating Grounding, Action and Control"
SFB- Talk | 28.11.2008

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Bremen, Cartesium, Rotunde
15:30 h

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Patrick Laube: "Towards Decentralized Spatial Computing"
SFB- Talk | 14.11.2008

Speaker's Homepage

Bremen, Cartesium, Rotunde
15:30 h

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Prof. Dr. Guoray Cai: "Conversational Dialogue Systems for GeoCollaborative Crisis Management"
SFB- Talk | 24.10.2008

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Bremen, Cartesium, Rotunde
15:30 h

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Jane Brennan: "Modelling Spatial Proximity"
SFB- Talk | 10.10.2008

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Rotunde; Cartesium
15:30 h

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Prof. Oliviero Stock, Italien: "Can technology help orienting natural face to face communication in positive directions?"
SFB- Talk | 07.10.2008

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Bremen, Cartesium, Rotunde
11:00 h

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Juergen Sturm: ""Body Scheme Learning from Self-Perception""
SFB- Talk | 25.07.2008

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University Freiburg
15:30 h

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Stephen Palmer: "Rethinking Figure-Ground Organization"
SFB- Talk | 11.07.2008

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Steven Palmer: "Aesthetic Science: Human Preference for Color and Spatial Composition"
SFB- Talk | 10.07.2008

Speaker's Homepage

Haus der Wissenschaft | Sandstraße 4/5 | 28195 Bremen Olbers-Saal | 1. OG
18:00 h

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Lars Kulik: "Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Agents Using RFID-Enabled Space Partitions"
SFB- Talk | 13.06.2008

Speaker's Homepage

U Bremen, Cartesium, Rotunde
15:30 h

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Werner Kuhn: "Semantic Engineering for Interoperability"
SFB- Talk | 06.06.2008

Speaker's Homepage

Rotunde Cartesium, Universität Bremen
15:30 h

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15.09.2008International Conference
Spatial Cognition 2008 (SC'08)

SC'08 is organized by the Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition in cooperation with the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC).

11.07.2008Stephen Palmer
"Rethinking Figure-Ground Organization"

10.07.2008Prof. Stephen Palmer, Ph.D.
Aesthetic Science: Human Preference for Color and Spatial Composition
Haus der Wissenschaft | Sandstraße 4/5 | 28195 Bremen
Olbers-Saal | 1. OG | 18.00 Uhr

23.06.2008Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC08)


06.06.2008Prof. Dr. Werner Kuhn, Universität Münster
Semantic Engineering for Interoperability

16.05.2008Prof. Dr. Joachim Hertzberg
Towards Semantic Maps for Mobile Robots

09.05.2008Magda Mavridou
The 3dimensional scale of the built environment and its effect on the understanding of the urban space

29.02.2008Prof. G. Lakemeyer Ph.D.
Towards an Integration of Golog and Planning

15.02.2008Gerald Steinbauer, Ph. D, Techn. Universität Graz
Increased Robustness for Autonomous Robots by Model-based Reasoning

08.02.2008Dr. Honghai Liu
Towards a Unified Representation for Intelligent Robotics

25.01.2008Marta Olivetti Belardinelli
Displacing Attention to Surrounding Environment

18.01.2008Kenny R. Coventry and Ronan O’Ceallaigh
Grounding Meaning in Perception and History: Spatial Communication and Dynamic Systems Theory

07.12.2007Martin Tomko
Destination descriptions

02.11.2007Stephan Winter
Spatial Cognitive Engineering

26.10.2007Katharine Willis
Differences in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition from Maps and Mobile Maps

11.10.2007Martin Raubal
Representing Concepts in Time

14.09.2007Thomas F. Shipley, Temple University
Mid-level Spatial Cogntion

31.08.2007Haik Lorenz
The virtual 3D city model as tool for data visualization and analysis

20.07.2007Yohei Kurata, Universität Bremen
Topological Relations between a Directed Line Segment and a Region / Line / Directed Line Segment

06.07.2007Florian Twaroch Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography Vienna University of Technology
Formal Models of Early Spatial Conceptualizations

29.06.2007Bernd Gaßmann, FZI Karlsruhe
Model-Based, Sensor-Driven Navigation of Walking Robots in Unstructured Terrain

22.06.2007David Mark, SUNY Buffalo
Variations in the Conceptualizations of Landscape Feature Types Across Cultures: Implications for Geospatial Ontologies

15.06.2007Michael Kess, Georgia Tech Institute
iSAM: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping

08.06.2007Jochen Renz, The Australian National University
Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Efficient Algorithms for Everyone

01.06.2007Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg
Analogical Inference and Learning in the Computer and the Mind

18.05.2007Urs-Jakob Rüetschi, University of Zurich
Wayfinding in Scene Space

11.05.2007Lars Kulik, The University of Melbourne
Decentralized approaches to location privacy

20.04.2007Jan Wiener / Thora Tenbrink
Wayfinding Strategies in Behavior and Language

16.03.2007Lutz Schröder, DFKI Bremen
Generic Upper Complexity Bounds for Modal Logics

09.03.2007Emmanuel Benazera, Universität Bremen
Challenges in Decision Theoretic Planning for Multi-Robot under Continuous Time and Resources

23.02.2007Eliseo Clementini, University of L'Aquila, Italien
Projective Relations

16.02.2007Angela Brunstein, Carnegie Mellon University
Learning Algebra: Space for Exploration

09.02.2007Elke van der Meer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Temporal Order Relations in Language Comprehension

01.02.2007Lledo Museros
A Qualitative Theory for Shape Representation and Matching for Design. Application to the Ceramic Industry.

26.01.2007Susanne Boll (Universität Oldenburg)
Non-visual Exploration of City Maps

19.01.2007Stefan Münzer, Universität Saarbrücken
Individual differences in environmental learning: The role of visuo-spatial working memory

18.12.2006Stéphane Donikian
Environmental abstraction and path planning techniques combined to a spatial cognitive map and a human-like memory model: some solutions for the simulation of pedestrian navigation in virtual environments

08.12.2006Andrew U. Frank
Formal Approaches to Structure Ontologies

01.12.2006Robert Porzel
In and Out Of Context: The Pragmatics of Multimodal Dialog Systems

24.11.2006Björn Gottfried, Universität Bremen
QSD - A Qualitative Shape Framework

21.07.2006Klaus Gramann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
Brain dynamics of Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames in Spatial Navigation

14.07.2006Christopher Habel, Universität Hamburg
The interplay of drawing and speaking in the production of route instructions

30.06.2006Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
Function and Polysemy of English Prepositions

23.06.2006Sara Fabrikant (Zürich)
Thematic relevance and perceptual salience in static weather maps

19.05.2006Gennady Andrienko, Fraunhofer Institut, St. Augustin
Intelligent Visualisation and Information Presentation for Civil Crisis Management

17.05.2006Lily Chao (UC London)
Investigating spatial information usage in urban wayfinding: a real time interactive approach

12.05.2006Gabriele Goldschmidt (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
Navigating the Design Space

05.05.2006Yohannes Kassahun (A6-[ReactiveSpace])
Towards a Unified Approach to Learning and Adaptation

28.04.2006Peter Gärdenfors, Lund University
Representing actions and functional propoerties in conceptual spaces

24.03.2006Nico van de Weghe, Ghent University
SPATIO-TEMPORAL REPRESENTING AND REASONING

17.03.2006Rolf Backofen, University of Freiburg
Simplified Models of Proteins: Folding and Robotics

03.03.2006Mike Worboys (University of Maine)
***postponed***

02.03.2006Thomas Bittner, University of Buffalo
A MEREOLOGICAL THEORY OF FRAMES OF REFERENCE

17.02.2006Kenny Coventry, Plymouth
Talking About Quantities in Space

20.01.2006Geoffrey Goodwin
Relational complexity and mental models in relational reasoning

19.01.2006Gerard Ligozat
A general algebraic framework for qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning

13.01.2006Ulises Cortes (UPC Barcelona)
e-Tools: an agent-based approach to assistive technologies for the elderly

16.12.2005Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken
Title to be announced

02.12.2005Bernd Neumann, Universität Hamburg
Cognitive Vision - Towards Generic Models for Scene Interpretation

04.11.2005Dirk Pattinson, Universität Leicester
A Temporal and Spatial Logic for Distributed Systems

21.10.2005Jana Holsanova, University of Lund / Sweden
How we focus our attention in picture viewing, picture description and during mental imagery

30.09.2005Joseph Goguen, University of California, San Diego
Mathematical models of cognitive space and time

27.09.2005John Zacharias, University of Montreal
Path preference and visual information

23.09.2005Stephan Winter, University of Melbourne
Landmarks in the communication of routes

29.07.2005Peggy Fidelman, The University of Texas at Austin
Two cases of learning on robots: grasping and motion detection

15.07.2005Marina Müller
Transformations between texts and maps

08.07.2005Sven Bertel, R1-[ImageSpace]
Eye-movements and human-computer collaborative reasoning

01.07.2005Longin Jan Latecki
Polygonal Approximation of Point Sets with Automatic Adjustment of EM Components and Its Application to Construction of Polygonal Maps from Laser Range Data

24.06.2005Zafer Bilda
Is sketching necessary for experts during conceptual designing?

17.06.2005Nick Hedley, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC
Exploring Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in Geospatial Mixed Reality Environments

03.06.2005Simone Frintrop, Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous intelligent Systems
VOCUS: A Visual Attention System for Object Detection and Goal-directed Search

27.05.2005Tomasz Marciniak and Michael Strube, EML, Heidelberg
Generating Natural Language Route Directions Using Classifiers and Linear Programming

20.05.2005Stefan Kopp, Universität Bielefeld
Trading Spaces: How Humans and Humanoids Use Gesture to Give Directions

13.05.2005I4-[SPIN] Bernd Krieg-Brückner / Achim Mahnke
The SFB repository infrastructure

15.04.2005Stefan Wölfl, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg
CASL Specifications of Qualitative Calculi

01.04.2005Alexander Klippel, University of Melbourne
Sapient Interfaces

25.02.2005Hedda Schmidtke, Universität Hamburg
Granularity as a parameter of context

18.02.2005Kai-Florian Richter, Cognitive Systems, Universität Bremen
A Model for Context-Specific Route Directions

04.02.2005Antonio Krüger, Universität Münster
Situated Human-Computer Interaction with Spatial Appliances

28.01.2005Tijana Asic, Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, Lyon, France
Space, time and prepositions

21.01.2005Gabriele Janzen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Neural correlates of object location memory

14.01.2005Jianwei Zhang, FB Informatik, Universitaet Hamburg
Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction by Incremental Learning

17.12.2004Ralf Möller (TU Hamburg-Harburg)
Description Logic Inference Systems: State of the Art, Applications, and Challenges for the Future

10.12.2004Andreas Nüchter, Universität Osnabrück
Kurt3D @ RoboCup Rescue - High Speed Driving meets 6D SLAM

03.12.2004Kai Hübner, Universtiät Bremen
Towards Quantitative Symmetry Detection

05.11.2004Thomas Röfer
Behaving in Space - How Robots play Soccer

22.10.2004Constanze Vorwerg
Factors influencing the use and interpretation of direction terms

17.09.2004Christian Mandel, A1-[RoboMap]
An Extension to the Dynamic Window Approach for arbitrarily shaped Robots

10.09.2004Kenny Coventry, Plymouth
Talking about places, spaces and faces

09.07.2004Max Egenhofer, University of Maine
Topological Relations on the Sphere

25.06.2004Rudolph Triebel
Autonomous Data Acquisition and 3D Scene Interpretation with a Mobile Robot

18.06.2004Sven Bertel, Dominik Engel
Reasoning with Mental Images: Towards a Cognitively Adequate Computational Architecture

04.06.2004Diedrich Wolter, Universität Bremen
Shape-Based Robot Mapping

28.05.2004Lara Webber
The Relationship between Internal and External Representations of Graphical Information

21.05.2004Mehmet Giritli
Measure Logics for Spatial Reasoning

14.05.2004Alexander Klippel
Sectors or Axis The Cognitive Basis of Wayfinding Ontologies

07.05.2004Robert Ross
Using Intentional Agent Programming to help bridge the Human-Robot Divide

30.04.2004Hans Werner Guesgen, Computer Science Dep., Auckland
Fuzzifying Spatial Relations

23.04.2004Georg Jahn, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen


16.04.2004Christian Becker (SFB 627)
SFB 627: Nexus/ Spatial World Models for Mobile Context-Aware Applications

09.04.2004 
***Good Friday***

02.04.2004John Bateman / Scott Farrar
The role of spatial ontology within the SFB: a status report

26.03.2004Stefan Wölfl, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg
Spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal reasoning -- Some notes from a modal-logical perspective

26.03.2004Stefan Wölfl, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg
Spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal reasoning -- Some notes from a modal-logical perspective

19.03.2004Cyrill Stachniss, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg
Exploration with Active Loop-Closing for FastSLAM

12.03.2004Klaus Stein, Fakultät für Informatik, TU München
Qualitative Representation and Line Generalization of Motion Tracks

05.03.2004Jan Restat, Lehrstuhl Kognitive Neurowissenschaft Universität Tübingen
Allocentrically calibrated egocentric spatial information as underlying basis of landmark, route and configurational knowledge

27.02.2004Tobias Meilinger
Ask for your way or use a map? A field study

13.02.2004Randolf Menzel
Navigation in honeybees is based on a map-like organization of spatial memory

06.02.2004Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo
Formal Ontology: the LOA perspective

06.02.2004Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo
Formal Ontology: the LOA perspective

30.01.2004Michael Fiegert
Localization in large unstructured dynamic environments

16.01.2004Hartwig Hochmair
Route selection in human wayfinding

19.12.2003Kerstin Fischer
I1-Onto Space

12.12.2003Jason Fleischer
Route communication between mobile robots using adaptive landmark symbols

05.12.2003Adam Pease
The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) and its Use in Linguistics

21.11.2003Dipl.-Inf. Udo Frese
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping - A Discussion

14.11.2003Philippe Muller
The ontology of space in language: primitives, categories and representation

31.10.2003Lars Kulik
Linearized Terrain Representation

24.10.2003Frank Kirchner
Hybrid architecture for spatial Learning, Representation and Navigation in mobile robots

17.10.2003Kerstin Schill
Project Proposal: Exploratory scene analysis based on an integrated representation of sensory features and motoric actions

10.10.2003 
No Colloquium! 25-Years of Informatics in Bremen

03.10.2003 
No Colloquium! Holiday in Germany

26.09.2003Christian Mandel
Using RouteGraphs as an Appropriate Data Structure for Navigational Tasks

19.09.2003Reinhard Moratz
Robust Reasoning about Relative Orientation and Distance

12.09.2003Sven Bertel, Dominik Engel, Thomas Barkowsky, Christian Freksa
Design of an Architecture for Reasoning with Mental Images

18.07.2003Cyrill Stachniss
Mapping and Exploration with Mobile Robots using Coverage Maps

11.07.2003John Bateman and Thora Tenbrink
Spatial and linguistic ontologies: to what extent do they overlap and how can we find out?

04.07.2003Barry Smith
Towards Geospatial Dynamics

30.06.2003Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova
Producing Contextually Appropriate Intonation in an Information-State Based Dialogue System.

20.06.2003Alfonso Gerevini
Spatio-Temporal Reasoning with RCC-8 and Allen's Interval Algebra: Contsraint Calculus and Computational Complexity

06.06.2003Ramon Lopez de Montaras
A multi-agent approach to landmark-based navigation

30.05.2003Maren Bennewitz
Where is ...? Learning and Utilizing Motion Patterns of Persons with Mobile Robots

23.05.2003Thomas Wagner
An Extended Panorama: Efficient Qualitative Spatial Knowledge Representation for Highly Dynamic Environments

16.05.2003Alexander Klippel
Wayfinding Choremes

09.05.2003Ubbo Visser
Intelligent tools for the Semantic Web based on qualitative modelling -

02.05.2003Daniel R. Montello
Cognitive Map-Design Research in the Twentieth Century

21.03.2003Klaus Rehkämper
Raum in Bildern und Wahrnehmung

14.03.2003Sabine Timpf
Modeling multi-modal wayfinding

17.02.2003Boicho Kokinov
Human Analogy Making: Models and Data Course

18.02.2003Boicho Kokinov
Integrating Memory and Reasoning in AMBR: A Model of Analogy-Making

20.12.2002Hartwig Hochmair
The Influence of Goal Representation and Knowledge on Decision-Making During Wayfinding

13.12.2002Tere Escrig
A common framework for qualitatively representing and reasoning with spatio-temporal aspects based on Constraint Logic Programming extended with Constraint Handling Rules

06.12.2002Thomas Vögele
Spatial Information Retrieval with Place Names

29.11.2002Anthony Cohn
Spatial Ontologies: from cells to buildings

15.11.2002Ian Pratt-Hartmann
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning: a Theoretical overview

08.11.2002Georg Gartner
TeleKartographie und Location Based Services als ein Schritt der digitalen Revolution der "GeoKommunikation"

01.10.2002Margaret Jefferies
Robot Cognitive Mapping - From Metric Local Space to Landmark

10.05.2002David Mark
Ontology in Spatial Cognition Research: Geographic Categories

22.02.2002Juval Portugali
The ESLab and the status of artificial environments