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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