COSIT '07 was the most competitive COSIT ever. The program committee has selected the following 28 papers out of 102 submissions (acceptance rate of 27%):

Brandon Bennett (Leeds, UK) and Pragya Agarwal (UCL, UK). Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of `Place'

Thomas Bittner (SUNY Buffalo, USA). From top-level to domain ontologies: Ecosystem classifications as a case study

Max Egenhofer and Maria Vasardani (UMaine, USA). Spatial Reasoning With A Hole

Andrew Frank (TU Vienna, Austria). Data Quality Ontololgy: An Ontology for Imperfect Knowledge

Yungang Hu (National Geomatics Center of China), Jun Chen (National Geomatics Center of China), Zhilin Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic U, Hong Kong), Renliang Zhao (National Geomatics Center of China). Selection of Streets Based on Mesh Density for Digital Map Generalization

Krzysztof Janowicz (Muenster, Germany) and Martin Raubal (UCSB, USA). Affordance-Based Similarity Measurement for Entity Types

Martin Kada (Stuttgart, Germany). Scale-Dependent Simplification of 3D Building Models Based on Cell Decomposition and Primitive Instancing

Alexander Klippel (PSU, USA) and Daniel Montello (UCSB, USA). Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts

Jean-Marie Kowalski (Ecole Navale, France), Christophe Claramunt (Ecole Navale, France), and Arnaud Zucker (Sophia Antipolis, France). Thalassographeïn: Representing Maritime Spaces in Ancient Greece

Barry Kronenfeld (GMU, USA). Triangulation of Gradient Polygons: A Spatial Data Model for Categorical Fields

Werner Kuhn (Muenster, Germany). An image-schematic account of spatial categories

Shou Kumokawa and Kazuko Takahashi (Kwansei Gakuin U, Japan). Drawing a Figure in a Two-Dimensional Plane for a Qualitative Representation

Ickjai Lee, Reece Pershouse and Kyungmi Lee (James Cook U, Australia). Geospatial Cluster Tessellation through the Complete Order-k Voronoi Diagrams

Stephan Maes (UBw Munich, Germany). Reasoning About Spatial Semantic Integrity Constraints

David Mark (SUNY Buffalo, USA), Andrew G. Turk (Murdoch U, Australia) and David Stea (Texas State U, USA). Progress on Yindjibarndi Ethnophysiography

Michael Milford and Gordon Wyeth (UQ, Australia). Spatial Mapping and Map Exploitation: a Bio-Inspired Engineering Perspective

Volker Paelke and Birgit Elias (Hannover, Germany). Stories as Route Descriptions

Avi Parush (Carleton University, Canada), Shir Ahuvia-Pick and Ido Erev (Israel Institute of Technology). Degradation in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition When Using Automatic Navigation Systems

David Peebles (Huddersfield, UK), Clare Davies (OS, UK) and Rodrigo Mora (UCL, UK). Effects of Geometry, Landmarks and Orientation Strategies in the 'Drop-Off' Orientation Task

Marco Ragni (Freiburg, Germany), Bolormaa Tseden (Freiburg, Germany) and Markus Knauff (Giessen, Germany). Cross-Cultural Similarities in Topological Reasoning

Kai-Florian Richter (Bremen, Germany). A Uniform Handling of Different Landmark Types in Route Directions

Simon Scheider and Daniel Schulz (IAIS, Germany). Specifying Essential Features of Spatial Street Networks

Jochen Schmidt, Chee K. Wong and Wai K. Yeap (AUT, NZ). Spatial Information Extraction for Cognitive Mapping with a Mobile Robot

Angela Schwering (Osnabrueck, Germany). Evaluation of a Semantic Similarity Measure for Natural Language Spatial Relations

John Stell (Leeds, UK). Relations in Mathematical Morphology with Applications to Graphs and Rough Sets

Vlad Tanasescu (Open University, UK). Spatial Semantics Factoring With Differences

Gerd Weitkamp, Arnold Bregt, Ron van Lammeren and Agnes van den Berg (Wageningen UR, The Netherlands). Three Sampling Methods for Visibility Measures of Landscape Perception

Danqing Xiao (GMU, USA), Yu Liu (Peking University, China) and Chaowei Yang (GMU, USA). Cross-Culture study of Biases in Location Judgments