Vol-1007
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SHAPES 2013
The Shape of Things

Proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop The Shape of Things

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 3-4, 2013.

SHAPES 2.0 has been organised as a part of Uni-Log 2013, the 4th World Congress and School on Universal Logic.

Edited by

Oliver Kutz ^a
Mehul Bhatt ^b
Stefano Borgo ^c
Paulo Santos ^d

^a Spatial Cognition Research Center (SFB/TR 8), University of Bremen, Germany
^b Cognitive Systems, and Spatial Cognition Research Center (SFB/TR 8), University of Bremen, Germany
^c Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy
^d Artificial Intelligence in Automation group, Centro Universitrio da FEI Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

SHAPES is an initiative of the IAOA Special Interest Group:
Design Semantics: Ontologies, Inference, and Standards for Spatial Design (www.designsemantics.org)

Table of Contents

Preface: SHAPES 2.0

Invited Speakers

Knowledge of knots: shapes in action 3-19
Roberto Casati
Graph-based pattern recognition and applications 21
Roberto Marcondes Cesar Jr.
On Shape Poems and the Shape of Poems: A Computational Creativity Perspective 23-28
Simon Colton
Prolegomena to an Ontology of Shape 29-40
Antony Galton
Lines, Shapes, and Meaning 41-45
Barbara Tversky

Contributed Papers

Sketch Learning by Analogy 49-58
Ulf Krumnack, Angela Schwering, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Helmar Gust, Ahmed Abdel-Fattah, Tarek Besold, Martin Schmidt, Stefan Schneider
The Shape of Empty Space: Human-centred cognitive foundations in computing for spatial design 59
Mehul Bhatt, Carl Schultz
A new Molyneux's problem: Sounds, shapes and arbitrary crossmodal correspondences 61-70
Ophelia Deroy, Malika Auvray
Structure, Similarity and Spaces 71-74
Sandro Rama Fiorini, Mara Abel, Peter Gärdenfors
Local Qualities, Quality Fields, and Quality Patterns: A Preliminary Investigation 75-81
Nicola Guarino
Shape Perception in Chemistry 83-94
Janna Hastings, Colin Batchelor, Mitsuhiro Okada
Shapes as property restrictions and property-based similarity 95-105
Silvia Likavec
The Shape of Absolute Coincidences. Salmon's Interactive Fork Model as Shape of Coincidental Processes 107-116
Alessandra Melas
The Role of Shape in Problem-Solving Activities in Mathematics 117-124
José Gustavo Morales, Matías Saracho
Shaping up: The Phenotypic Quality Ontology and Cross Sections 125-136
Robert J. Rovetto
Dynamic Assembly of Figures in Visuospatial Reasoning 137-141
Stefan Schneider, Ulf Krumnack, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Declarative Computing with Shapes and Shadows 143-150
Carl Schultz, Mehul Bhatt
Mental “structures” in the Berlin school of Gestalt Psychology: can sensation be described as “structural”? 151-162
Eric Tremault
Statistical Invariants of Spatial Form: From Local AND to Numerosity 163-172
Christoph Zetzsche, Konrad Gadzicki, Tobias Kluth

Full Proceedings

SHAPES 2.0 Proceedings

2013-06-30: submitted by Oliver Kutz
2013-07-02: published on CEUR-WS.org