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title: "Representing Space for Practical Reasoning"
authors:
  - "Margaret M. Fleck"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/145"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0145.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "728-729"
track: "Perception"
keywords:
---

# Representing Space for Practical Reasoning

Margaret M. Fleck

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 728-729.

## Abstract

This paper describes a new approach to representing space and time for practical reasoning. Unlike Rn, the new models can represent a bounded region of space using only finitely many cells, so they can be manipulated directly. Unlike zn, they have useful notions of function continuity and region connectedness. Finally, the topology of space is allowed to depend on the situation being represented, accounting for sharp changes in function values and Jack of connectedness across object boundaries.