Title

Representations and strategies for solving spatial problems with diagrams

Authors

Bonny Banerjee, The Ohio State UniversityFollow
B. Chandrasekaran, The Ohio State UniversityFollow

Abstract

Spatial problems (SP) are inevitable in reasoning with diagrams. In this paper, we investigate general representations and computational strategies for a SP-solver such that it can accept problems from a human in a high-level language and output the solution without human intervention. We propose a language in which a variety of domain-independent 2D SPs can be specified in terms of constraints. The constraints are specified in first-order logic over the real domain using a vocabulary of objects, properties, relations and actions. We also propose two general and independent computational strategies - constraint satisfaction and spatial search -for autonomously solving the SPs. Ideas about how to make these strategies computationally efficient are discussed and illustrated by examples. © 2007 IEEE.

Publication Title

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2007

Recommended Citation

Banerjee, B., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2007). Representations and strategies for solving spatial problems with diagrams. Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2007, 183-186. https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2007.46