10:30-11:00   ----- break -----

11:00-12:30   Tutorials I & II (continued)

12:30-14:00   ----- lunch break -----
 

14:00-15:30   Tutorials III & IV (special registration)

15:30-16:00   ----- break -----

16:00-17:30   Tutorials III & IV (continued)
 

18:00-20:00   Welcome reception for Cosit participants

          I   LANDMARKS AND NAVIGATION
              (Chair: Christian Freksa)

09:00-09:45   Keynote Lecture
                      Ruediger Wehner
                      Large-scale navigation: The insect case

09:55-10:15   Thomas Roefer
                      Route navigation using motion analysis

10:20-10:40   Molly E. Sorrows and Stephen C. Hirtle
                      The nature of landmarks for real and
                      electronic spaces

10:45-11:15   ----- break -----
 

         II   ROUTE DIRECTIONS
              (Chair: David Mark)

11:15-11:35   Barbara Tversky and Paul U. Lee
                      Pictorial and verbal tools for
                      conveying routes

11:40-12:00   Kristin L. Lovelace, Mary Hegarty, and
                      Daniel R. Montello
                      Elements of good route directions in familiar
                      and unfamiliar environments

12:05-12:25   Sylvie Fontaine and Michel Denis
                      The production of route instructions in
                      underground and urban environments

12:30-14:00   ----- lunch break -----
 

        III   ABSTRACTION AND SPATIAL HIERARCHIES
              (Chair: Stephen Hirtle)

14:00-14:20   Andrew U. Frank
                      One step up the abstraction ladder: Combining
                      algebras - from functional pieces to a whole

14:25-14:45   Emilio Remolina, Juan A. Fernandez,
                      Benjamin Kuipers, and Javier Gonzalez
                      Formalizing regions in the spatial semantic
                      hierarchy: An AH-graphs implementation 
                      approach

14:50-15:10   Sabine Timpf
                     Abstraction, levels of detail, and hierarchies
                     in map series

15:15-15:35   Stephan Winter
                      Topological relations in hierarchical partitions

15:40-16:15   ----- break -----
 

         IV   SPATIAL REASONING CALCULI
              (Chair: Anthony Cohn)

16:15-16:35   Carola Eschenbach
                      A predication calculus for qualitative spatial
                      representations

16:40-17:00   Gèrard Ligozat
                      Simple models for simple calculi

17:05-17:25   Ralf Moeller and Michael Wessel
                      Terminological default reasoning about spatial
                      information: A first step

17:30-17:50   Lars Kulik and Alexander Klippel
                      Reasoning about cardinal directions using grids
                      as qualitative geographic coordinates

              ----- break -----
 

19:30         Birds of a Feather Dinner, various local
                  restaurants
                  <topics & locations to be annouced>
 

09:00-09:45   Keynote Lecture 
                      Nicola Guarino
                     The role of identity conditions in ontology
                      design

09:55-10:15   Claudio Masolo and Laure Vieu
                      Atomicity vs. infinite divisibility of space

10:20-10:40   Antony Galton
                     The mereotopology of discrete space

10:45-11:15   ----- break -----
 

         VI   ONTOLOGY OF SPACE II
              (Chair: Andrew Frank)

11:15-11:35   Barry Smith
                      Agglomerations

11:40-12:00   David M. Mark, Barry Smith, and  Barbara Tversky 
                      Ontology and geographic objects: An empirical
                      study of cognitive categorization

12:05-12:25   Anthony G. Cohn and Achille C. Varzi
                      Modes of connection

12:30-17:00   ----- bag lunch & excursion -----
 

        VII   INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION
              (Chair: Christopher Habel)

17:30-19:30   Poster presentations (conference lobby/gallery)

20:00         ----- Reception & Banquet -----
                    Rathaus (City Hall)
 
 

09:00-09:45   Keynote Lecture 
              John S. Gero
              Representation and reasoning about shapes:
              Cognitive and computational studies in visual
              reasoning in design

09:55-10:15   Werner Kuhn
                      An algebraic interpretation of semantic networks

10:20-10:40   Gennady Andrienko and Natalia Andrienko
                      Data characterization schema for intelligent
                      support in visual data analysis

10:45-11:15   ----- break -----
 

         IX   MAPS AND ROUTES
              (Chair: Daniel R. Montello)

11:15-11:35   Hanspeter A. Mallot, Sabine Gillner,
                      Sibylle D. Steck, and Matthias O. Franz
                      Recognition-triggered response and the
                      view-graph approach to spatial cognition

11:40-12:00   Martin Raubal and Michael Worboys
                      A formal model of the process of wayfinding
                      in built environments

12:05-12:25   Driss Kettani and Bernard Moulin
                      A spatial model bases on the notions of spatial
                      conceptual map and of object's influence areas

12:30-14:00   ----- lunch break -----
 

          X   GRANULARITY AND QUALITATIVE ABSTRACTION
              (Chair: Werner Kuhn)

14:00-14:20   John G. Stell
                       Granulation for graphs

14:25-14:45   Thomas Bittner
                      On ontology and epistemology of rough location

14:50-15:10   Christopher D. Ellis and Douglas M. Johnston
                      Qualitative spatial representation for
                      situational awareness and spatial decision
                      support

15:15-15:40   Alexandra Musto, Klaus Stein, Kerstin Schill,
                      Andreas Eisenkolb, and Wilfried Brauer
                      Qualitative motion representations in
                      egocentric and allocentric frames of reference

15:45-16:15   ----- break -----
 

         XI   CLOSING PANEL
              (Chair: Andrew Frank)

16:15-17:30   <Panelists to be announced>
 
 

09:00-10:30   <presentations to be announced>

10:30-11:00   ----- break -----

11:00-12:30   <presentations to be announced>

12:30-13:30   ----- lunch break -----

13:30-15:00   <presentations to be announced>

15:00         END OF DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM