Papers marked to appear or in print may be obtained by contacting me. Here is the DBLP entry: [DBLP Entry].

Select / Overview Publications

  • Reasoning about Space, Actions and Change: A Paradigm for Applications of Spatial Reasoning.
  • Modelling Dynamic Spatial Systems in the Situation Calculus
  • Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Emerging Applications, Trends and Future Directions.
  • CLP(QS): A Declarative Spatial Reasoning Framework

  • Spatial Computing for Design: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective.
  • The `Space' in Spatial Assistance Systems: Conception, Formalisation, and Computation.
  • Interleaved Inductive-Abductive Reasoning for Learning Event-Based Activity Models
  • Analytical Intelligence for Geospatial Dynamics

  • Ontology Driven Profiling and Information Retrieval in Medical Information Systems.
  • Move: A distributed framework for materialized ontology view extraction
  • Semantic completeness in sub-ontology extraction using distributed methods
  • Ontological Modelling of Form and Function for Architectural Design

All papers referred above may be downloaded from the lists below.

All Publications

Edited Journals and Proceedings
  1. Bhatt, M., Guesgen, H. (2012) . Situation Awareness for Assistive Technologies. Edited book within the book series: Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (AISE), IOS Press, Indexed by Thomson Reuters Citation Index. (to appear) [Publisher site, Publisher site ]

  2. Bhatt, M., Guesgen, H., Woelfl, S., Hazarika, S. (2011). Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Emerging Applications, Trends and Future Directions. Special Issue of the Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation. 11(1). Taylor & Francis, London, England, 2011. [Publisher site, Bibtex]

  3. Bhatt, M., Hans Guesgen, Juan Carlos Augusto. (2011). Proceedings of the Workshop on Space, Time and Ambient Intelligence(STAMI 2011). International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011). [Download proceeding]

  4. Kutz, O., Hastings, J., Bhatt, M., Borgo, S. (2011). Proceedings of Workshop, SHAPES 1.0: The Shape of Things (SHAPES 1.0). Co-located with CONTEXT 2011: The 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, Karlsruhe, Germany. Published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings. [URL]

  5. Bhatt, M., Guesgen, H., Hazarika, S. (2010). Proceedings of the Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Dynamics (STeDy). European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010). [Download proceeding, Bibtex]

  6. Guesgen, H., Bhatt, M. (2010). Spatial and Temporal Reasoning. Journal of Universal Computer Science, Special Issue on Advances in Spatial and Temporal Reasoning. Know-Center, Graz, Austria, 2010. [Publisher site, Issue Articles, Bibtex]

  7. Guesgen, H., Bhatt, M. (2009). Proceedings of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2009. Pasadena, California, USA, July 2009. [Download proceeding, Bibtex]

  8. Bhatt, M., Guesgen, H. (2009). Proceedings of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning for Ambient Intelligence Systems. Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2009, France). Report Series of the SFB/TR 8, No. 020-08/2009, Bremen, Germany. [Download proceeding, Bibtex]
Journal Articles, Book Chapters
  1. Bhatt, M. (2012). Reasoning about Space, Actions and Change: A Paradigm for Applications of Spatial Reasoning. in: Hazarika, S. (editor). Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning: Trends and Future Directions. IGI Global (PA, USA). DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-868-1. ISBN13: 978161692868. (forthcoming) [PDF Normal,PDF Optimized/Web, Bibtex]

  2. Bhatt, M., Schultz, C., Freksa, C. (2012). The `Space' in Spatial Assistance Systems: Conception, Formalisation, and Computation. in Thora Tenbrink, Jan Wiener, Christophe Claramunt (editors). Representing space in cognition: Interrelations of behavior, language, and formal models. Series: Explorations in Language and Space. Oxford University Press, 2012. (accepted for publication) [PDF]

  3. Schultz, C., Bhatt, M. (2012). Multi-Modal Spatial Data Access for Architecture Design Assistance. AIEDAM: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Special issue on: Design Computing and Cognition. Vol.26, No.2, Spring 2012, Cambridge University Press (accepted for publication). [SI url]

  4. Bhatt, M., Hois, J., Kutz, O. (2012). Ontological Modelling of Form and Function for Architectural Design. Applied Ontology Journal. (in press) [PDF)]

  5. Suchan, J., Bhatt, M. (2012). The ExpCog Framework: High-level Spatial Control and Planning for Cognitive Robotics. Bridges between the Methodological and Practical Work of the Robotics and Cognitive Systems Communities - From Sensors to Concepts. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Springer, 2012 (accepted for publication)

  6. Sari, A. K., Rahayu, W., Bhatt, M. (2012). An Approach for Sub-ontology Evolution in a Distributed Health Care Enterprise. Journal: Information Systems -- Databases: Their Creation, Management and Utilization. (in press)

  7. Bhatt, M., Guesgen, H., Woelfl, S., Hazarika, S. (2011). Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Emerging Applications, Trends and Future Directions. Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation. Issue: Emerging Applications of Spatial and Temporal Reasoning. 11(1). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13875868.2010.548568, ISSN: 1387-5868 print/1542-7633 online, Taylor & Francis Group 2011. (in press). [PDF, Bibtex]

  8. Sari, A. K., Rahayu, W., Bhatt, M. (2011). Archetype Sub-Ontology: Improving Constraint-based Clinical Knowledge Model in Electronic Health Records.. Journal: Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier. (in press; Online publication: DOI)

  9. Guesgen, H., Bhatt, M. (2010). Advances in Spatial and Temporal Reasoning. J. UCS 16(11): 1388-1389 (2010) (short overview for J. UCS special issue) [Bibtex]

  10. Bhatt, M., Rahayu, W., Soni, S and Wouters, C. (2009). Ontology Driven Profiling and Information Retrieval in Medical Information Systems. Journal of Web Semantics (JWS). ISSN: 1570-8268. [DOI, PDF, Bibtex]

  11. Bhatt, M., Dylla, F (2009). A Qualitative Model of Dynamic Scene Analysis and Interpretation in Ambient Intelligence Systems. Robotics for Ambient Intelligence, International Journal of Robotics and Automation. Vol. 24, Issue 3. [Draft. PDF, Bibtex]

  12. Bhatt, M., Loke, S., (2008). Modelling Dynamic Spatial Systems in the Situation Calculus, Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation: Special Issue on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning, Eds. Guesgen, H., Renz, 8(1), 86-130, May 2008, ISSN: 1542-7633 (electronic) 1387-5868 (paper), Taylor & Francis. [DOI, PDF, Bibtex ]

  13. Bhatt, M., Flahive, A., Wouters, C., Rahayu, W., Taniar, D (2006). Move: A Distributed Framework for Materialised Ontology View Extraction. Algorithmica: Special Issue on Coarse Grained Parallel Algorithms For Scientific Applications, 45(3), 457-481, July 2006, ISSN: 0178-4617, Springer-Verlag, New York. [DOI, PDF, Bibtex ]
Conference, Symposia, and Workshop Articles
  1. Dubba, K., Bhatt, M., Dylla, F., Cohn, A., Hogg, D. (2011). Interleaved Inductive-Abductive Reasoning for Learning Event-Based Activity Models. 21st International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP 2011), Windsor Great Park, United Kingdom. (pre-conference acceptance & online publication, short version) [PDF]

  2. Bhatt, M., Freksa, C. (2011). Spatial Computing for Design: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective. NSF International Workshop on Studying Visual and Spatial Reasoning for Design Creativity SDC'10, France. (forthcoming / inpress: SDC 2010 ) [PDF, Bibtex] (Funded by US NSF)

  3. Bhatt, M., Szymon Gajek, Ewa Grabska, and Wojciech Palacz. Artefactual Reasoning in a Hypergraph-Based CAD System. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems (CORES 2011). Wroclow, Poland. May 2011. (to appear)

  4. Bhatt, M., Lee, J. H., Schultz, C. CLP(QS): A Declarative Spatial Reasoning Framework. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 11). Belfast, Maine. [PDF]

  5. Schultz, C., Bhatt, M. (2011). Toward Accessing Spatial Structure from Building Information Models. In: 28th Urban Data Management Symposium (UDMS 2011, Delft, The Netherlands). Volume XXXVIII-4/C21. ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial. [PDF, DOI] (Received best paper award)

  6. Mehul Bhatt., Jan Oliver Wallgrün. (2011). Analytical Intelligence for Geospatial Dynamics. International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2011), Belfast, Maine. [PDF]

  7. Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Mehul Bhatt., (2011). An Architecture for Semantic Analysis in Geospatial Dynamics. In: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-11). Proceedings of the Workshop: Terra Cognita, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Bonn, Germany. [PDF]

  8. Kurfess, F., Flanagan, G., Bhatt, M. (2011). Spatial Interactions between Humans and Assistive Agents. Proceedings of the AAAI 2011 Spring Symposium: Help Me Help You: Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration. AAAI. (to appear)

  9. Bhatt, M., Flanagan, G. (2010). Spatio-Temporal Abduction for Scenario and Narrative Completion (a preliminary statement). In International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Dynamics, ECAI 2010, Lisbon, Portugal. [PDF, Bibtex]

  10. Bhatt, M., Hois, J., Kutz, O., Dylla, F. (2010). Modelling Functional Requirements in Spatial Design. In Proc. of the 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER-2010), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2010. [in press; PDF, Bibtex]

  11. Bhatt, M. (2010). Commonsense Inference in Dynamic Spatial Systems: Epistemological Requirements. 23rd International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2010) - Special Track on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning, AAAI Press, May 2010. Part 2 of 2. [PDF, Bibtex]

  12. Schultz, C., Bhatt, M. (2010) A Multi-Modal Data Access Framework for Spatial Assistance Systems. In Proc. of Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness (ISA 2010), In conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010, San Jose, CA, USA. [PDF, Bibtex]

  13. Bhatt, M., Dylla, F., Hois, J. (2009). Spatio-Terminological Inference for the Design of Ambient Environments. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), France, September 2009. pp. 371-391, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5756, ISBN 978-3-642-03831-0, Springer. [PDF, Paper Website, Bibtex]

  14. Bhatt, M. (2009). Commonsense Inference in Dynamic Spatial Systems: Phenomenal and Reasoning Requirements. in: Ivan Bratko and Jure Žabkar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR 09), pp 1-6, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 2009. Part 1 of 1. [PDF, Bibtex]

  15. Bhatt, M. (2009). Toward an Experimental Cognitive Robotics Framework: A Position Statement. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems: Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, USA. [PDF, Bibtex]

  16. Hois, J., Bhatt, M., Kutz, O. (2009). Modular Ontologies for Architectural Design. Formal Ontologies Meet Industry (FOMI 2009), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop FOMI 2009, September 2, 2009, Vicenza, Italy, in association with the 10th European Conference on Knowledge Management. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp 66-77, Vol. 198, ISBN: 978-1-60750-047-6, IOS Press. [PDF, Bibtex]

  17. Dylla, F., Bhatt, M. (2008). "Qualitative Spatial Scene Modelling in Ambient Intelligence Environments" International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 08), Wuhan, China. [PDF, Bibtex]

  18. Bhatt, M. (2008) "(Some) Default and Non-Monotonic Aspects of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning" AAAI Technical Reports, Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, AAAI 2008, ISBN 978-1-57735-379-9. [PDF, Bibtex]

  19. Bhatt, M. (2008). "Dynamical Spatial Systems: A Potential Approach for the Application of Qualitative Spatial Calculi" In Proceedings of the 21st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 08) - Special Track on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning, AAAI Press. [PDF, Bibtex]

  20. Bhatt, M. (2007). "A Causal Approach for Modelling Spatial Dynamics: A Preliminary Report" International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, Hyderabad, India. [pdf, Bibtex] (Funded by DSTO, Australia)

  21. Bhatt, M., Rahayu, W., Soni, S and Wouters, C. (2007). "OntoMove: A Knowledge Based Framework For Semantic Requirement Profiling and Resource Acquisition" 18th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2007), Melbourne, IEEE Computer Society [PDF, Bibtex]. (Funded by VPAC, Australia)

  22. Bhatt, M., Rahayu, W. and Sterling, G. (2006). "Qualitative Spatial Reasoning with Topological Relations in the Situation Calculus." In Proceedings of the 19th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 06) - Special Track on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning, AAAI Press. [PDF, Bibtex]

  23. Bhatt, M., Rahayu, W. and Sterling, G. (2006). "A Causal Perspective to Qualitative Spatial Reasoning in the Situation Calculus" Advances in Artificial Intelligence - SBIA 2006, 18th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Brazil, LNAI, Vol 4140, pp 430-440, Springer-Verlag. [PDF, Bibtex]

  24. Bhatt, M., Rahayu, W. and Sterling, G. (2005). "A General Framework based on Dynamic Constraints for the Enrichment of a Topological Theory of Spatial Simulation". In Ninth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, LNCS, Springer-Verlag. [PDF, Bibtex]

  25. Bhatt, M., Rahayu, W. and Sterling, G. (2005). "Situation Awareness in Synthetic Environments: Towards a Computational Model". Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05). [PDF, Bibtex]

  26. Bhatt, M., Rahayu, W. and Sterling, G. (2005). "Synthetic Environment Representational Semantics Using the Web Ontology Language." In Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 05), LNCS, Springer Verlag, Vol. 3578 . [PDF, Bibtex] [STOWL Data] (Received Travel Award)

  27. Falhive, A., Bhatt, M., Wouters, C., Rahayu, W., Taniar, D., and Dillon, T. (2004). Parallel and Distributed Techniques for Extracting Large Ontologies as a Resource in a Grid Environment. Applied Parallel Computing (PARA-04), Proceedings of the workshop on the state-of-the-art in scientific computing, pp. 43-50, 2004. ISBN: 87-643-0041-2 and ISSN: 1601-2321. Bibtex

  28. Bhatt, M., Rahayu, W. and Sterling, G. (2004). "sedOnto: A Web Enabled Ontology for Synthetic Environment Representation Based on the SEDRIS Specification" Simulation Interoperability Workshop, Fall SIW 2004, Orlando. [PDF, Bibtex] [sedOnto Details]

  29. Bhatt, M., Wouters, C., Flahive, A., Rahayu, W., and Taniar, D. (2004). "Semantic Completeness in Sub-ontology Extraction Using Distributed Methods." LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 3045, 508-517. [PDF, Bibtex]

  30. Bhatt, M., Flahive, A., Wouters, C., Rahayu, W., Taniar, D., and Dillon, T (2004). "A Distributed Approach to Sub-Ontology Extraction." Proceedings 18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, ISBN/ISSN: 0769520510, pp 636-641. [PDF, Bibtex]
Miscellaneous
  1. Bhatt, M., Schultz, C., Huang, M. Show me the moves...all of them: Function and Affordance Driven Wayfinding Analysis. In: edra43seattle -- Environmental Design Research Association Conference 2012. Seattle, USA. (accepted poster abstract)[PDF].

  2. Bhatt, M., Suchan, J. ExpCog: An Experimental Cognitive Robotics Framework for High-Level Spatial Planning and Control. 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2012), TU Vienna, Austria. [ExpCog, CogSys Proceeding].

  3. Tassoni, S., Fogliaroni, P., Bhatt, M., De Felice, G. Toward a Qualitative Model of 3D Visibility (2011). 25th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, co-located with the IJCAI-11 conference, Barcelona, Spain. (short position statement in late-breaking paper category) [PDF].

  4. Bhatt, M., Flanagan, G., Ichim, A. (2010). DSim: A Tool for Assisted Spatial Design. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC 2010) [Bibtex]

  5. Normann, I., Dylla, F., Hois, J., Kutz, O., Bhatt, M., Schmitt, M., Putz, W., Weber, S. (2009) Ontologies and Reasoning for Ambient Assisted Living. Online proceedings of the 1st. OASIS International Conference, Florence, Italy. [Bibtex]

  6. Bhatt, M. (2008). "From Quantitative to Qualitative Spaces: A Position Statement for the FOGI Workshop." Extended Abstract, Workshop on Geographic Ontologies Grounding and Vagueness 2008, Leeds, United Kingdom. [pdf, [Bibtex]]

  7. Bhatt, M. (2008). Modelling Dynamic Spatial Systems in the Situation Calculus. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, La Trobe University, Australia, 2008. Advisor - Seng Loke. [PLink, [Bibtex]]

  8. Bhatt, M., Whigham, P. (2006). "The Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Hot-Spots: A Case Study into the GeoSpatial Aspects of Alcohol-Related Crime." GIScience 2006, Refereed Extended Abstracts, IFGI-Prints Series. [pdf, [Bibtex]] (Collaborative visit Funded by SIRC, University of Otago, NZ)

  9. Bhatt, M., Rahayu, W. and Sterling, G. (2005). "Qualitative Simulation: Towards a Situation Calculus based Unifying Semantics for Space, Time and Actions". Refereed Doctoral Colloquium Abstracts, Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT - 05). [pdf, [Bibtex]] (Funded by ESRI Travel Award)

  10. Bhatt, M. (2004). "A Situation Calculus based Approach for Deliberative Control in Dynamic Environments", Submitted toward the completion of Minor Thesis Component, Department of Computer Science, La Trobe University. [pdf, [Bibtex]]

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@inproceedings{Schultz:2010:MDA:1865885.1865895,
author = {Schultz, Carl and Bhatt, Mehul},
title = {A multi-modal data access framework for spatial assistance systems: use-cases with the building information model (BIM/IFC)},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness},
series = {ISA '10},
year = {2010},
isbn = {978-1-4503-0433-7},
location = {San Jose, California},
pages = {39--46},
numpages = {8},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1865885.1865895},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1865885.1865895},
acmid = {1865895},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {decision-support systems, indoor environments, interoperability, ontology, semantics, spatial assistance, spatial computing, spatial data models},
}


@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cosit/BhattDH09,
author = {Mehul Bhatt and
Frank Dylla and
Joana Hois},
title = {Spatio-terminological Inference for the Design of Ambient
Environments},
booktitle = {COSIT},
year = {2009},
pages = {371-391},
ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03832-7_23},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/cosit/2009},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/cosit/2009,
editor = {Kathleen Stewart Hornsby and
Christophe Claramunt and
Michel Denis and
G{\'e}rard Ligozat},
title = {Spatial Information Theory, 9th International Conference,
COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 21-25, 2009,
Proceedings},
booktitle = {COSIT},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {5756},
year = {2009},
isbn = {978-3-642-03831-0},
ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03832-7},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}


@inproceedings{bhatt:QR09,
Author = {Mehul Bhatt},
Booktitle = {23rd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR 09), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 2009},
Editor = {Ivan Bratko and Jure \v{Z}abkar},
Note = {(Part 1 of 2)},
Pages = {1-6},
Title = {Commonsense Inference in Dynamic Spatial Systems: Phenomenal and Reasoning Requirements},
Year = {2009}}


@inproceedings{bhatt:hycas:09,
author = {Mehul Bhatt},
title = {Toward an Experimental Cognitive Robotics Framework: A Position Statement},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems: Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control (HYCAS 2009), Pasadena, USA.},
year = {2009},
pages = {7-12},
url = {http://www.hycas.org/2009/HYCAS2009-Proceedings.pdf},
}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/fomi/HoisBK09,
author = {Joana Hois and
Mehul Bhatt and
Oliver Kutz},
title = {Modular Ontologies for Architectural Design},
booktitle = {FOMI},
year = {2009},
pages = {66-77},
ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-047-6-66},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/fomi/2009},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/fomi/2009,
editor = {Roberta Ferrario and
Alessandro Oltramari},
title = {Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, Proceedings of the 4th
Workshop FOMI 2009, September 2, 2009, Vicenza, Italy, in
association with the 10th European Conference on Knowledge
Management},
booktitle = {FOMI},
publisher = {IOS Press},
series = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications},
volume = {198},
year = {2009},
isbn = {978-1-60750-047-6},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}


@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icira/DyllaB08,
author = {Frank Dylla and
Mehul Bhatt},
title = {Qualitative Spatial Scene Modeling for Ambient Intelligence
Environments},
booktitle = {ICIRA (1)},
year = {2008},
pages = {716-725},
ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88513-9_77},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/icira/2008-1},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/icira/2008-1,
editor = {Caihua Xiong and
Honghai Liu and
Yongan Huang and
Youlun Xiong},
title = {Intelligent Robotics and Applications, First International
Conference, ICIRA 2008, Wuhan, China, October 15-17, 2008
Proceedings, Part I},
booktitle = {ICIRA (1)},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {5314},
year = {2008},
isbn = {978-3-540-88512-2},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}



@inproceedings{bhatt:aaai08,
author = {Mehul Bhatt},
title = {{(Some)} {D}efault and Non-Monotonic Aspects of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning},
booktitle = {AAAI-08 Technical Reports, Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning},
year = {2008},
pages = {1-6},
isbn = {978-1-57735-379-9},
}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/flairs/Bhatt08,
author = {Mehul Bhatt},
title = {Dynamical Spatial Systems - A Potential Approach for the
Application of Qualitative Spatial Calculi},
booktitle = {FLAIRS Conference},
year = {2008},
pages = {580-585},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/flairs/2008},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/flairs/2008,
editor = {David Wilson and
H. Chad Lane},
title = {Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial
Intelligence Research Society Conference, May 15-17, 2008,
Coconut Grove, Florida, USA},
booktitle = {FLAIRS Conference},
publisher = {AAAI Press},
year = {2008},
isbn = {978-1-57735-365-2},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}



@inproceedings{Bhatt:2007:Causal-App-Spat-Calc,
author = {Mehul Bhatt},
title = {A Causal Approach for Modelling Spatial Dynamics},
booktitle = {IJCAI 2007},
publisher = {Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning},
year = {2007},
}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aswec/BhattRSW07,
author = {Mehul Bhatt and
J. Wenny Rahayu and
Sury Prakash Soni and
Carlo Wouters},
title = {OntoMove: A Knowledge Based Framework for Semantic Requirement
Profiling and Resource Acquisition},
booktitle = {ASWEC},
year = {2007},
pages = {137-146},
ee = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ASWEC.2007.36},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/aswec/2007},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/aswec/2007,
title = {18th Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2007),
April 10-13, 2007, Melbourne, Australia},
booktitle = {Australian Software Engineering Conference},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
year = {2007},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}


@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/flairs/BhattRS06,
author = {Mehul Bhatt and
J. Wenny Rahayu and
Gerald Sterling},
title = {Qualitative Spatial Reasoning with Topological Relations
in the Situation Calculus},
booktitle = {FLAIRS Conference},
year = {2006},
pages = {713-718},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/flairs/2006},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/flairs/2006,
editor = {Geoff Sutcliffe and
Randy Goebel},
title = {Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial
Intelligence Research Society Conference, Melbourne Beach,
Florida, USA, May 11-13, 2006},
booktitle = {FLAIRS Conference},
publisher = {AAAI Press},
year = {2006},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}


@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iberamia/BhattRS06,
author = {Mehul Bhatt and
J. Wenny Rahayu and
Gerald Sterling},
title = {A Causal Perspective to Qualitative Spatial Reasoning in
the Situation Calculus},
booktitle = {IBERAMIA-SBIA},
year = {2006},
pages = {430-440},
ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11874850_47},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/iberamia/2006},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/iberamia/2006,
editor = {Jaime Sim{\~a}o Sichman and
Helder Coelho and
Solange Oliveira Rezende},
title = {Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA-SBIA 2006,
2nd International Joint Conference, 10th Ibero-American
Conference on AI, 18th Brazilian AI Symposium, Ribeir{\~a}o
Preto, Brazil, October 23-27, 2006, Proceedings},
booktitle = {IBERAMIA-SBIA},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {4140},
year = {2006},
isbn = {3-540-45462-4},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}


@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/kes/BhattRS05,
author = {Mehul Bhatt and
J. Wenny Rahayu and
Gerald Sterling},
title = {A General Framework Based on Dynamic Constraints for the
Enrichment of a Topological Theory of Spatial Simulation},
booktitle = {KES (4)},
year = {2005},
pages = {366-373},
ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11554028_51},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/kes/2005-4},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/kes/2005-4,
editor = {Rajiv Khosla and
Robert J. Howlett and
Lakhmi C. Jain},
title = {Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering
Systems, 9th International Conference, KES 2005, Melbourne,
Australia, September 14-16, 2005, Proceedings, Part IV},
booktitle = {KES (4)},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {3684},
year = {2005},
isbn = {3-540-28897-X},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iicai/BhattRS05,
author = {Mehul Bhatt and
J. Wenny Rahayu and
Gerald Sterling},
title = {Situation Awareness in Synthetic Environments: Towards a
Computational Model},
booktitle = {IICAI},
year = {2005},
pages = {3556-3575},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/iicai/2005},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/iicai/2005,
editor = {Bhanu Prasad},
title = {Proceedings of the 2nd Indian International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, Pune, India, December 20-22, 2005},
booktitle = {IICAI},
publisher = {IICAI},
year = {2005},
isbn = {0-9727412-1-6},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ideal/BhattRS05,
author = {Mehul Bhatt and
J. Wenny Rahayu and
Gerald Sterling},
title = {Synthetic Environment Representational Semantics Using the
Web Ontology Language},
booktitle = {IDEAL},
year = {2005},
pages = {9-16},
ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11508069_2},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/ideal/2005},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/ideal/2005,
editor = {Marcus Gallagher and
James M. Hogan and
Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Maire},
title = {Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL
2005, 6th International Conference, Brisbane, Australia,
July 6-8, 2005, Proceedings},
booktitle = {IDEAL},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {3578},
year = {2005},
isbn = {3-540-26972-X},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iccsa/BhattWFRT04,
author = {Mehul Bhatt and
Carlo Wouters and
Andrew Flahive and
J. Wenny Rahayu and
David Taniar},
title = {Semantic Completeness in Sub-ontology Extraction Using Distributed
Methods},
booktitle = {ICCSA (3)},
year = {2004},
pages = {508-517},
ee = {http://springerlink.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article{\&}issn=0302-9743{\&}volume=3045{\&}spage=508},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/iccsa/2004-3},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/iccsa/2004-3,
editor = {Antonio Lagan{\`a} and
Marina L. Gavrilova and
Vipin Kumar and
Youngsong Mun and
Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan and
Osvaldo Gervasi},
title = {Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2004,
International Conference, Assisi, Italy, May 14-17, 2004,
Proceedings, Part III},
booktitle = {ICCSA (3)},
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume = {3045},
year = {2004},
isbn = {3-540-22057-7},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}



@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aina/BhattFWRTD04,
author = {Mehul Bhatt and
Andrew Flahive and
Carlo Wouters and
J. Wenny Rahayu and
David Taniar and
Tharam S. Dillon},
title = {A Distributed Approach to Sub-Ontology Extraction},
booktitle = {AINA (1)},
year = {2004},
pages = {636-641},
ee = {http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/aina/2004/2051/01/205110636abs.htm},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/aina/2004},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/aina/2004,
title = {18th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking
and Applications (AINA 2004), 29-31 March 2004, Fukuoka,
Japan},
booktitle = {AINA},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
year = {2004},
isbn = {0-7695-2051-0},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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