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Although it is quite common in spatial reasoning to utilize topology for representing spatial information in a qualitative manner, in this paper an alternative method is investigated which has no connection to topology but to measure theory. I propose two logics to speak about measure theoretic information. First I investigate a highly expressive, first-order measure logic and besides providing models which with respect to this logic is sound and complete, I also show that it is actually undecidable. In the second half of the paper, a propositional measure logic is constructed which is much less expressive but computationally much more attractive than its first-order counterpart. Most importantly, in this propositional measure logic we can express spatial relations which are very similar to well-known topological relations of RCC-8 although the most efficient known logic system to express these topological relations is propositional intuitionistic logic which is undoubtedly harder than propositional measure logic.
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Giritli, M. (2004). Measure Logics for Spatial Reasoning. In: Alferes, J.J., Leite, J. (eds) Logics in Artificial Intelligence. JELIA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30227-8_41
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