Carl Schultz
Personal Information
| Title | Ph.D. |
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| Function | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Office | 3.55 |
| Phone | 64182 |
| cschultz |
Profession
| About me | I am a postdoctoral researcher working in the Cognitive Systems Group (CoSy) at the University of Bremen. My research aims to address the challenges of developing software applications that employ qualitative spatial representation and reasoning; as a member of the DesignSpace project, my specific focus is on computer aided architectural design tools. I am fascinated by the issues that confront developers of qualitative spatial systems, in particular, given the pervasiveness of spatial concepts in a tremendous range of scientific, industrial, and commercial application domains. I am working towards the establishment of software engineering methodologies for design, analysis, and testing, that will enable the cost-effective development of robust and powerful spatial reasoning systems. |
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| Interests | |
| Ph.D. Project | My view is that qualitative spatial reasoning calculi are not easily accessible to developers with a background in software engineering. Thus, in order to help bridge this gap, I am developing software engineering methodologies in the areas of requirements specification, design, analysis, validation, and meta-validation. A central theme in my PhD research (completed July 2010) was the adaptation of object-oriented software engineering techniques and paradigms in a manner that supports the strengths of qualitative spatial reasoning. For example, this includes incorporating the central role of continuity, working with infinite domains, and managing complex models that reason over a broad range of abstraction levels. In general, my research aims to facilitate the development of applications that utilise qualitative spatial reasoning calculi: |
| Research Projects | I am a member of the DesignSpace project, which focuses on the application of qualitative spatial reasoning to assist in computer aided architectural design. |
Publications
To Appear
- . MindYourSpace - A Tool for Evidence-Based Qualitative Analyses of User Experience and Navigation Behavior in the Built Environment.edra44providence - 44th Environmental Design Research Association Conference 2013
- . InSpace3D: A Middleware for Built Environment Data Access and Analytics.International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2013), in co/operation with SIGHPC, Barcelona, Spain..
- . Cognitive Interpretation of Everyday Activities - Toward Perceptual Narrative Based Visuo-Spatial Scene Interpretation.Computational Models of Narrative (CMN) 2013., a satellite workshop of CogSci 2013: The 35th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society., Editors: M. Finlayson., B. Fisseni., Benedikt Löwe., J. C. Meister.OASIcs proceedings volume.OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs).Dagstuhl, Germany
- . Ambient Environment Analysis by means of Perception.20th International Workshop: Intelligent Computing in Engineering 2013. eg-ice: European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering.
- . People-Centred Architecture Design: Visuo-spatial cognition, and its role in discourse and systems for design conception, computing and communication.Imagery in the Age of Modelling. Operative Artifacts in the Design Process in Architecture and Engineering / Bildlichkeit im Zeitalter der Modellierung: Operative Artefakte in Entwurfsprozessen der Architektur und des Ingenieurwesens.ed. Sabine Ammon, Inge Hinterwaldner.
2013
- . 2013.The `Space' in Spatial Assistance Systems: Conception, Formalisation, and Computation. Book: Representing Space in Cognition: Behaviour, Language, and Formal Models..Series: Explorations in Language and Space.ed. Thora Tenbrink, Jan Wiener, Christophe Claramunt. .978-0-19-967991-1.
- . 2013. .Proceedings of International Workshop on SHAPES 2.0: The Shape of Things, 4th World Congress and School on Universal Logic..
2012
- . 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. Cambridge University Press..vol. 26.2.
- . 2012. .edra43seattle – Environmental Design Research Association Conference 2012
- . 2012. .IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2012. Innsbruck, Austria.IEEE.
- . 2012.Toward a Declarative Spatial Reasoning System.20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012)
- . 2012. .Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning: Trends and Future Directions. ed. Shyamanta Hazarika.pages 168–202.
2011
- . 2011. .Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2011), Belfast, Maine.).Lecture Notes in Computer Science.Springer
- . 2011. .28th Urban Data Management Symposium (UDMS 2011).vol. XXXVIII-4/C21. .
2010
- . 2010. .Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness (ISA 2010), In conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010,.ACM
- . 2010.The Impact of Qualification on the Application of Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning Calculi.23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Adelaide, Australia.pages 62–71
2009
- . 2009. .Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier.vol. 23.1.pages 68–80