Dr. Matthias Delafontaine

Matthias Delafontaine (°1984, Brugge) was research assistant at the Geography Department of Ghent University and a research fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). He holds a Master's degree in Geography (Ghent University). Building on fundamental research in geographical information science, time geography and artificial intelligence, Matthias' research focuses on representing, reasoning about and extracting information from moving objects. In particular, his research aims to bridge the everlasting gap between theoretical models and practicable applications which is especially challenging given the rapidly evolving technologies for tracking moving objects. To this end, the development, implementation and evaluation of relevant applications play a key role in his work.

Selected publications:

  • Delafontaine, M., Neutens,T., Van de Weghe, N., accepted, Modelling potential movement in constrained travel environments using rough space-time prisms, International Journal of Geographical Information Sciences, In Press.
  • Delafontaine, M., Cohn, A. G., Van de Weghe, N., 2011, Implementing a qualitative calculus to analyse moving point objects, Expert Systems With Applications, In Press.
  • Delafontaine, M., Chavoshi, H., Cohn, A.G. and Van de Weghe, N., 2010, A Qualitative Trajectory Calculus to reason about moving point objects. In Hazarika S.M. (Ed.): Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Representation and Reasoning: Trends and Future Directions, IGI Global, (to appear).
  • Delafontaine, M., Van de Weghe, N., 2009, Modelling Moving Objects in Geospatial Sketch Maps, In: Tomko, M., Richter, K. (eds.): AGILE Workshop on Adaptation in Spatial Communication, Hannover (2009), p. 7-17
  • Delafontaine, M., Nolf, G., Van de Weghe, N., Antrop, M. and De Maeyer, P., 2009, Assessment of sliver polygons in geographical vector data, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 23 (6), p.719-735.
  • Delafontaine, M., Van de Weghe, N., Bogaert, P. and De Maeyer, Ph., 2008, Qualitative Relations between Moving Objects in a Network Changing its Topological Relations, Information Sciences, 178 (8), p.1997-2006.