  Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning (QSTR) is concerned with symbolic
knowledge representation, typically over infinite domains. The motivations for
employing QSTR techniques range from exploiting computational properties that
allow efficient reasoning to capture human cognitive concepts in a
computational framework. The notion of a qualitative calculus is one of the
most prominent QSTR formalisms. This article presents the first overview of all
qualitative calculi developed to date and their computational properties,
together with generalized definitions of the fundamental concepts and methods,
which now encompass all existing calculi. Moreover, we provide a classification
of calculi according to their algebraic properties.

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