Relating Strong Spatial Cognition to Symbolic Problem Solving --- An Example

TL;DR

This paper compares a strong spatial cognition approach to a symbolic graph-based algorithm for shortest path finding, highlighting their similarities and the ease of understanding the spatial method.

Contribution

It introduces and analyzes a strong spatial cognition approach, demonstrating its simplicity and immediate applicability compared to traditional symbolic algorithms.

Findings

Both approaches have similar structure and complexity.

Spatial cognition method is easier to understand.

Spatial approach is immediately applicable for problem solving.

Abstract

In this note, we discuss and analyse a shortest path finding approach using strong spatial cognition. It is compared with a symbolic graph-based algorithm and it is shown that both approaches are similar with respect to structure and complexity. Nevertheless, the strong spatial cognition solution is easy to understand and even pops up immediately when one has to solve the problem.