Although there has been a great deal of research and development of linguisitic and symbolic knowledge-based systems, spatial reasoning has emerged as an independent field. Previously, problems related to space and time were separately considered in computer graphics, computer vision, image processing, robotics, computer-integrated manufacturing, computational complexity, spatial databases, natural language processing, cognitive science, and expert status of fundamental issues and problems.

Although there has been a great deal of research and development of linguisitic and symbolic knowledge-based systems, spatial reasoning has emerged as an independent field. Previously, problems related to space and time were separately considered in computer graphics, computer vision, image processing, robotics, computer-integrated manufacturing, computational complexity, spatial databases, natural language processing, cognitive science, and expert status of fundamental issues and problems.

Although there has been a great deal of research and development of linguisitic and symbolic knowledge-based systems, spatial reasoning has emerged as an independent field. Previously, problems related to space and time were separately considered in computer graphics, computer vision, image processing, robotics, computer-integrated manufacturing, computational complexity, spatial databases, natural language processing, cognitive science, and expert status of fundamental issues and problems.