Partitions to Improve Spatial Reasoning

The field of spatial reasoning has provided a litany of formal models and reasoning systems aimed at providing users with information about spatial tasks and concepts, ranging from point-to-point distance measurements coming from sensors all the way to topological information coming from the interaction of multiple sensor readings. In this short paper, the concept of using topology to augment partitions is addressed. Future work within the dissertation includes other partition-based relation theories, including digital topological relations and surrounds configurations within a collection of objects