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Christian Freksa

Christian Freksa

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
34
Citations
8425
World Ranking
9118
National Ranking
310

Overview

Christian Freksa is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany and specializes primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their research encompasses several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Geography, Planning and Development, and Signal Processing.

Their work addresses a range of topics with a focus on Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization, AI-based Problem Solving and Planning, Geographic Information Systems Studies, Data Management and Algorithms, Semantic Web and Ontologies, Cognitive Science and Mapping, and Artificial Intelligence in Games.

Freksa's research output includes papers published in notable venues such as Transactions in GIS and the Journal of Spatial Information Science. Two recent papers demonstrate the scope of their interests:

  • Extracting invariant characteristics of sketch maps: Towards place query-by-sketch (2020, Transactions in GIS)
  • Beyond spatial reasoning: Challenges for ecological problem solving (2020, Journal of Spatial Information Science)

Collaborations are evident in their work, with frequent co-authors including Ming Tang, Zoe Falomir, Yehua Sheng, Haiyang Lyu, and Maria Vasardani. These collaborations reflect contributions across various aspects of spatial reasoning, ecological problem solving, and related computational methods.

The mixture of topics such as GIS, cognitive science, and AI-based planning highlights a multidisciplinary approach within their scientific endeavors. Publications in both geography-oriented journals and computer science domains illustrate an intersection of technical and applied research.

Best Publications

  • Temporal reasoning based on semi-intervals

    Christian Freksa

  • Using Orientation Information for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

    Christian Freksa

  • The paradoxical success of fuzzy logic

    C. Elkan;H.R. Berenji;B. Chandrasekaran;C.J.S. de Silva

  • Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

    Christian Freksa

  • Cognitive models of geographical space

    David M. Mark;Christian Freksa;Stephen C. Hirtle;Robert Lloyd

  • Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science

    Christian Freksa;David M. Mark

  • Qualitative Spatial Reasoning Using Orientation, Distance, and Path Knowledge *

    Kai Zimmermann;Christian Freksa

  • Spatial Cognition: The Role of Landmark, Route, and Survey Knowledge in Human and Robot Navigation

    Steffen Werner;Bernd Krieg-Brückner;Hanspeter A. Mallot;Karin Schweizer

  • Wörterbuch der Kognitionswissenschaft

    G. Strube;B. Becker;C. Freksa;U. Hahn

  • Spatial Cognition, An Interdisciplinary Approach to Representing and Processing Spatial Knowledge

    Christian Freksa;Christopher Habel;Karl Friedrich Wender

  • Cognitive Requirements on Making and Interpreting Maps

    Thomas Barkowsky;Christian Freksa

  • Spatial Cognition IV, Reasoning, Action, Interaction

    Christian Freksa;Holger Schultheis;Kerstin Schill;Thora Tenbrink

  • On the utilization of spatial structures for cognitively plausible and efficient reasoning

    C. Freksa;K. Zimmermann

  • Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning in the SparQ-toolbox

    Jan Oliver Wallgrün;Lutz Frommberger;Diedrich Wolter;Frank Dylla

  • Spatial Representation with Aspect Maps

    Bettina Berendt;Thomas Barkowsky;Christian Freksa;Stephanie Kelter

  • You-Are-Here Maps in Emergencies - The Danger of Getting Lost

    Alexander Klippel;Christian Freksa;Stephan Winter

  • The Cognitive Reality of Schematic Maps

    Alexander Klippel;Kai Florian Richter;Thomas Barkowsky;Christian Freksa

  • Approaching the notion of place by contrast

    Stephan Winter;Christian Freksa

  • DIMENSIONS OF QUALITATIVE SPATIAL REASONING

    Christian Freksa;Ralf Röhrig

  • Schematic Maps as Wayfinding Aids

    Hernan Casakin;Thomas Barkowsky;Alexander Klippel;Christian Freksa

  • Schematic Maps for Robot Navigation

    Christian Freksa;Reinhard Moratz;Thomas Barkowsky

  • "Spatial and Visual Components in Mental Reasoning About Space" Editorial

    Thomas Barkowsky;Christian Freksa;Markus Knauff

  • Qualitative spatial reasoning about relative position: the tradeoff between strong formal properties and successful reasoning about route graphs

    Reinhard Moratz;Bernhard Nebel;Christian Freksa

  • The ‘Space’ in Spatial Assistance Systems : Conception, Formalisation and Computation

    Mehul Bhatt;Carl Schultz;Christian Freksa

  • Spatial Computing for Design—an Artificial Intelligence Perspective

    Mehul Bhatt;Christian Freksa

  • Foundations of computer science : potential--theory--cognition

    Wilfried Brauer;C. Freksa;Matthias Jantzen;R. Valk

  • KI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

    Christian Freksa;Michael Kohlhase;Kerstin Schill

  • Spatial and Temporal Structures in Cognitive Processes

    Christian Freksa

  • Visual Attention and Cognition

    Godwin Lekwuwa;W.H. Zangemeister;H.S. Stiehl;C. Freksa

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Nebel
Bernhard Nebel University of Freiburg
Mary Hegarty
Mary Hegarty University of California, Santa Barbara
Stephan Winter
Stephan Winter University of Melbourne
Peter Haddawy
Peter Haddawy Mahidol University
Peter Gärdenfors
Peter Gärdenfors Lund University
Nora S. Newcombe
Nora S. Newcombe Temple University
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Lotfi A. Zadeh University of California, Berkeley
Didier Dubois
Didier Dubois Paul Sabatier University
John Yen
John Yen Pennsylvania State University

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