Parts, wholes, and part-whole relations: The prospects of mereotopology

DOI10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00017-1MaRDI QIDQ4332082zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Achille C. Varzi

Publication date 27 February 1997

Published in Data & Knowledge Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-023x(96)00017-1

zbMATH Keywords

TopologyMereologyBoundaryPartSpatio-temporal reasoningWhole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theory of data (68P99)

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