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Spatial computing occurs at multiple scales, ranging from the minuscule to the gigantic. This raises the question whether the concepts involved in computing are scale-invariant. The Core Concepts of Spatial Information have originally been proposed for geographic spaces, though with the intent to make them applicable across scales. We have started to systematically validate them for astronomic spaces, starting with the concept of location.
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Kollasch, F., Kuhn, W. (2018). The Concept of Location in Astronomic Spaces. In: Fogliaroni, P., Ballatore, A., Clementini, E. (eds) Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). COSIT 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_15
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