Geographic wayfinders and space-time algebra

  • Time Geography is a framework for describing reachable points in a (static) spatio-temporal environment. While originally devised to facilitate reasoning about an individual's or a population's living conditions, it was later adapted to many other applications. A wayfinder is an entity that moves through a space-time continuum with possible obstacles. We show how to model the pertinent notions in relational algebra (and, more abstractly, in modal semirings) with box and diamond operators. Admissible or undesired regions can be described as Boolean combinations of primitive regions such as the set of all points reachable by forward or backward movement from a given region or starting point. To derive results about the region blocked by the union of two regions we introduce an abstract algebraic view of coordinates that is largely independent of dimensional and metric aspects and thus very general. Moreover, the approach lends itself quite easily to machine-supported proofs.

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Author:Bernhard MöllerGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-519433
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/51943
ISSN:2352-2208OPAC
Parent Title (English):Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming
Publisher:Elsevier BV
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Embargo Date:2021/02/18
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2019/04/12
Tag:Political Science and International Relations; Cultural Studies; Sociology and Political Science
Volume:104
First Page:274
Last Page:302
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlamp.2019.02.003
Institutes:Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Informatik / Professur für Programmiermethodik und Multimediale Informationssysteme
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
Licence (German):CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung (mit Print on Demand)