Jan Oliver Wallgrün

Introduction

I am a post-doctoral research scholar at the GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography, at Penn State University, working in the area of Geographic Information Science. My background is in Informatics and AI. I did my Ph.D. in Informatics in the  Transregional Collaborative Research Center "Spatial Cognition" (SFB/TR 8)  at the University of Bremen, Germany. After my Ph.D. I worked in the International Research Training Group IRTG SIGI on the topic of "Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information" and spend some time at the Department for Spatial Information Science and Engineering at the University of Maine.

My current research focus lies on spatial and spatio-temporal representation and reasoning, in particular on approaches that employ commonsense notions of space and techniques from the field of qualitative spatial reasoning. For instance, I am investigating methods to automatically match and integrate spatial data coming in different forms (e.g., geometric and qualitative) and from different sources. Important aspects in this work are the resolution of contradictions and the correction of the input data based on user-specified spatial integrity constraints. I am also a member of the Human Factors in GIScience Lab aiming at advancing the understanding of how humans cognize geographic space.

Research Interests

• GIScience
• Spatial and Temporal Modeling and Reasoning
• Artificial Intelligence
• spatial cognition

Courses Taught

• GEOG 363

Publications

To appear

Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Mapping indoor environments with mobile robots. In Wolfgang Kresse and David M. Danko, editors, Springer Handbook of Geographic Information. Springer, to appear.

2011

Jia Wang, Klaus Broelemann, Malumbo Chipofya, Angela Schwering, and Jan Oliver Wallgrün, editors. Understanding and Processing Sketch Maps – Proceedings of the COSIT 2011 Workshop, volume 42 of ifgiPrints. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka GmbH (IOS Press), Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.

Diedrich Wolter and Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Qualitative spatial reasoning for applications: New challenges and the SparQ toolbox. In Shyamanta M. Hazarika, editor, Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning: Trends and Future Directions. IGI Global, 2011.

Giorgio de Felice, Paolo Fogliaroni, and Jan Oliver Wallgrün. A hybrid geometric-qualitative spatial reasoning system and its application in GIS. In Max Egenhofer, Nick Guidice, Reinhard Moratz, and Mike Worboys, editors, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, 2011.

Paolo Fogliaroni, Giorgio de Felice, Falko Schmid, and Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Managing qualitative spatial information to support query-by-sketch. In Jia Wang, Klaus Broelemann, Malumbo Chipofya, Angela Schwering, and Jan Oliver Wallgrün, editors, Proceedings of the COSIT 2011 Workshop on An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding and Processing Sketch Maps, volume 42 of ifgiPrints. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka GmbH (IOS Press), Heidelberg, Germany, 2011.

Diedrich Wolter, Kai-Florian Richter, and Jan Oliver Wallgrün.    Using SparQ for matching sketch maps.  In Jia Wang, Klaus Broelemann, Malumbo Chipofya, Angela Schwering, and Jan Oliver Wallgrün, editors, Proceedings of the COSIT 2011 Workshop on An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding and Processing Sketch Maps, volume 42 of ifgiPrints. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka GmbH (IOS Press), Heidelberg, Germany, 2011

Jan Oliver Wallgrün and Mehul Bhatt. An Architecture for Semantic Analysis in Geospatial Dynamics. International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-11) - Proceedings of the Workshop: Terra Cognita, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2011

Mehul Bhatt and Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Analytical intelligence for geospatial dynamics. 10th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory - extended abstract, poster, 2011.

2010

Jan Oliver Wallgrün.    Qualitative spatial reasoning for topological map learning.    Spatial Cognition and Computation – An Interdisciplinary Journal, 10(4):207–246, 2010.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Voronoi graph matching for robot localization and mapping. Transactions on Computational Science, 9:76–108, 2010.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Hierarchical Voronoi Graphs – Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Mobile Robots. Springer, 2010.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün and Anna-Katharina Lautenschütz, editors. Proceedings of the GIScience 2010 Doctoral Colloquium, volume 38 of ifgiPrints. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka GmbH (IOS Press), Heidelberg, Germany, 2010.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Diedrich Wolter, and Kai-Florian Richter. Qualitative matching of spatial information.    In Amr El Abbadi, Diyakant Agrawal, Mohamed Mokbel, and Pusheng Zhang, editors, Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010), pages 300–309, 2010.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün and Frank Dylla. Spatial data integration with qualitative integrity con- straints. In Ross Purves and Robert Weibel, editors, Online Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010), 2010.

Giorgio de Felice, Paolo Fogliaroni, and Jan Oliver Wallgrün.    Qualitative reasoning with visibility information for environmental learning.    In Ross Purves and Robert Weibel, editors, Online Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010), 2010. Best short paper award GIScience 2010.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün and Frank Dylla. Qualitative spatio-temporal data integration and con- flict resolution.    In Mehul Bhatt, Hans W. Guesgen, and Shyamanta M. Hazarika, editors, Proceedings of the ECAI 2010 Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Dynamics, pages 13–18, 2010.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün and Frank Dylla.    A relation-based merging operator for qualitative spatial data integration and conflict resolution.    Technical Report 022-06/2010, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition; http://www.sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de/, 2010.

Paolo Fogliaroni, Giorgio de Felice, and Jan Oliver Wallgrün.    A qualitative perspective on volunteered geographic information. In GIScience 2010 - Workshop on the Role of Volunteered Geographic Information in Advancing Science, 2010.

2009

Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Exploiting qualitative spatial constraints for multi-hypothesis topological map learning. In Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, Christophe Claramunt, Michel Denis, and Gérard Ligozat, editors, Spatial Information Theory, 9th International Conference, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac’h, France, September 21-25, 2009 Proceedings, volume 5756 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 141–158. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Matching annotated generalized voronoi graphs for autonomous robot localization and mapping. In François Anton and J. Andreas Bærentzen, editors, Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering. IEEE Computer Society, 2009.

Paolo Fogliaroni, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Eliseo Clementini, Francesco Tarquini, and Diedrich Wolter. A qualitative approach to localization and navigation based on visibility information. In Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, Christophe Claramunt, Michel Denis, and Gérard Ligozat, ed- itors, Spatial Information Theory, 9th International Conference, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac’h, France, September 21-25, 2009 Proceedings, volume 5756 of Lecture Notes in Computer Sci- ence. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Multi-hypothesis topological mapping using qualitative spatial reasoning. In Bernard Nebel and Stefan Wölfl, editors, Papers from the 2009 AAAI Spring Symposium Benchmarking of Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning Systems, number SS-09-02 in Technical Report, pages 35–40. AAAI Press; Menlo Park, CA, 2009.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Hierarchical Route Graph Representations for mobile Robots Based on Generalized Voronoi Graphs. PhD thesis, University of Bremen, 2009.

2008

 Diedrich Wolter, Frank Dylla, Stefan Wölfl, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Lutz Frommberger, Bernhard Nebel, and Christian Freksa. SailAway: Spatial cognition in sea navigation. Künstliche Intelligenz, 1:28–30, 2008.

2007

Frank Dylla and Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Qualitative spatial reasoning with conceptual neighborhoods for agent control. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 48(1):55–78, 2007.

Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Lutz Frommberger, Diedrich Wolter, Frank Dylla, and Christian Freksa. Qualitative spatial representation and reasoning in the SparQ-toolbox. In Thomas Barkowsky, Markus Knauff, Gerard Ligozat, and Dan Montello, editors, Spatial Cognition V: Reasoning, Action, Interaction: International Conference Spatial Cognition 2006, volume 4387 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 39–58. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.

Frank Dylla, Lutz Frommberger, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Diedrich Wolter, Stefan Wölfl, and Berhard Nebel. Sailaway: Formalizing navigation rules. In Proceedings of the AISB’07 Artificial and Ambient Intelligence Symposium on Spatial Reasoning and Communication, 2007.

Lutz Frommberger, Jae Hee Lee, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, and Frank Dylla.    Composition in OPRAm.    Technical Report 013-02/2007, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, 2007.

2006

Frank Dylla and Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Qualitative spatial reasoning with conceptual neighbor- hoods for agent control. In International Symposium & Special Issue on Model-Based Reasoning in Engineering and Robotic Systems (Guangzhou, China), 2006.

Frank Dylla and Jan Oliver Wallgrün. On generalizing orientation information in OPRAm. In Proceedings of the 29th German conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2006), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 274–288, Berlin, 2006. Springer.

Frank Dylla, Lutz Frommberger, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, and Diedrich Wolter. SparQ: A tool- box for qualitative spatial representation and reasoning.    In Proceedings of the Workshop on Qualitative Constraint Calculi: Application and Integration (KI 2006), pages 79–90, 2006. 

Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Lutz Frommberger, Frank Dylla, and Diedrich Wolter. SparQ user manual v0.6. Technical Report 007-07/2006, SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, 2006.

2005

Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Autonomous construction of hierarchical Voronoi-based route graph rep- resentations. In Christian Freksa, Markus Knauff, Bernd Krieg-Brückner, Bernhard Nebel, and Thomas Barkowsky, editors, Spatial Cognition IV. Reasoning, Action, Interaction: International Conference Spatial Cognition 2004, volume 3343 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 413–433, Berlin, 2005. Springer.

2004

Jan Oliver Wallgrün.    Hierarchical Voronoi-based route graph representations for planning, spatial reasoning, and communication.    In Patrick Doherty, editor, Proceedings of the 4th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob-2004), pages 64–49, 2004.

2003

Reinhard Moratz and Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Propagation of distance and orientation intervals. In Proceedings of 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-03), pages 3245–3250, 2003.

Reinhard Moratz and Jan Oliver Wallgrün. Spatial reasoning about relative orientation and distance for robot exploration. In Werner Kuhn, Michael F. Worboys, and Sabine Timpf, editors, Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science. Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), LNCS, pages 61–74. Springer Heidelberg, 2003.