Specifying Spatio Temporal Relations for Multimedia Ontologies

Author(s):  
Karthik Thatipamula ◽  
Santanu Chaudhury ◽  
Hiranmay Ghosh
Author(s):  
G. Jayanthi ◽  
V. Uma

Geographic features in the real world are represented by spatial entities such as point, line, and area in two-dimensional surfaces. These features tend to evolve in time, thereby characterizing change in their physical identity, evolution into new species, thus describing geomorphological change of geographic features. These phenomena can be formalized using spatio-temporal relations. Formal representation of changing geographic (spatial) features is the interest of this chapter. Formal methods for representing the event and process that causes geomorphological change are presented. The formalization of geographic entities that are temporally and spatially related in a two-dimensional plane using the interval logic and spatial logic would facilitate the understanding of how modeling of space-time using spatio-temporal relations represents spatial evolution over time. Representation of temporal dynamism can be accomplished using various models. Modeling using spatio-temporal graph is more apt as it contributes to the cause-effect analysis.


Author(s):  
Vesna Dinić-Miljković

There is no perception without affection. This necessity comes from the very fact that perception measures our possible action upon things, and thereby, the possible action of things upon us. For the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, affection occupies exactly this gap between the potentiality of action of the perceived objects and our virtual action upon them. This encounter between the affected body and the affecting body presumes the in-betweenness, an interval between a perception which is troubling in certain respects and a hesitant action. As opposed to emotion, which is directed toward a certain goal and demands actualization, affect precedes will, as a pre-personal intensity referring to the passage from one experiential state of the body to another. Influenced by Baruch Spinoza's concept of affect and Henri Bergson's thesis on movement that he considers the essence of cinema's movement-image, Deleuze creates his own theory of affect that finds its most obvious manifestation in the works of art. The artist creates affects, gives them to us, draws us into the compound, and makes us become with them. Deleuze's aesthetics produces the spectator's movement in-place through sensation. Through shapes and colours, the canvas vibrates, clenches or cracks open because it is the bearer of glimpsed forces. Like with Edward Munch's The Scream or Francis Bacon's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, the invisible forces become visible in themselves and thus the sensation becomes materialized right there on the canvas surface. In cinema, this materialization of sensation Deleuze recognized in the affection-image, abstracted from the causal and spatio-temporal relations to the images that surround it, and therefore open to a spiritual dimension. As power-quality, the affect gains its independence from the thing that expresses it and becomes an entity, a potentiality considered to itself.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Erica Baffelli ◽  
Frederik Schröer

During the COVID-19 pandemic, access to space has been strictly regulated and restricted. Many of us feel acutely disconnected from our relationships, while at the same time new forms of (virtual) intimacies have become ubiquitous. In the pandemic present, nearly all interpersonal relations are now characterised by a double absence that is concrete and material, and also emotional and felt. This article offers a theoretical reflection on how conditions of absence create new practices of intimacy and new strategies of coping. It does so by discussing how pre-pandemic emotional repertoires are translated into new forms of intimacy that can synchronise or throw out of sync. It highlights the centrality of spatial and temporal relations under absence in uncovering new mediated practices.


Author(s):  
James DiFrisco

This chapter investigates the identity and persistence conditions for processes as a task of biological process ontology. It argues that the problem of intrinsic variation in evolution, development, and metabolism motivates viewing biological individuals as processes rather than as substances. Different criteria of identity for processes are then evaluated, including causal and spatio-temporal relations. The chapter ultimately settles on the view that processes are individuated by causal cohesion and are identical if they share the same cohesive properties and spatio-temporal region. The persistence of processes is interpreted on the model of perdurance, as a form of causal continuity or genidentity.


Author(s):  
Margaret J. Somerville ◽  
Sarah J. Powell

Abstract In this paper we propose the concept of ‘becoming-with’ in relation to the experience of the catastrophic fires in the summer of 2019–2020 in Australia, and their implications for research into young children’s response to bushfires, and their learning about bushfire recovery, which resulted in the development of an arts-based project to explore emergent curriculum and pedagogies for planetary wellbeing. We draw on Deleuze and Guattari’s theorising that ‘the self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities’; and ‘Spatio-temporal relations’ as ‘not predicates of the thing but dimensions of multiplicities of events as encounters’ to theorise how ‘becoming-with’ fires enabled the development of emergent curriculum and pedagogies in an early learning centre, which can ultimately contribute to planetary wellbeing.


Author(s):  
Elena Antinoro Pizzuto ◽  
Emanuela Cameracanna ◽  
Serena Corazza ◽  
Virginia Volterra

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