Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science

A collection of papers presented at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, July 1994, including the following papers: ** Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Barry Smith ** The Bounds of Axiomatisation, Graham White ** Rethinking Boundaries, Wojciech Zelaniec ** Sheaf Mereology and Space Cognition, Jean Petitot ** A Mereotopological Definition of 'Point', Carola Eschenbach ** Discreteness, Finiteness, and the Structure of Topological Spaces, Christopher Habel ** Mass Reference and the Geometry of Solids, Almerindo E. Ojeda ** Defining a 'Doughnut' Made Difficult, N .M. Gotts ** A Theory of Spatial Regions with Indeterminate Boundaries, A.G. Cohn and N.M. Gotts ** Mereotopological Construction of Time from Events, Fabio Pianesi and Achille C. Varzi ** Computational Mereology: A Study of Part-of Relations for Multi-media Indexing, Wlodek Zadrozny and Michelle Ki

Studying Spatial Cognition: A report on the DFG workshop on "The Representation of Motion"

this article, we want to give an impression of this collaborative enterprise that combines scientific work in individual projects with communication and cooperation among the projects and with additional projects not funded in this program. This example is set by describing a workshop on "The Representation of Motion", held in October 1998 in Munich, organized by C. Eschenbach and K. Schill. The workshop is part of a series of topic-centered workshops, organized by members of the priority program and meant to encourage the interaction within the program and the integration of further projects on kindred topics. This series complements workshops of the whole program, on the one hand, and bilateral workshops of projects collaborating on concrete tasks, on the other hand