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Authors:
Mehdi Mekni
Keywords: Informed Virtual Geographic Environments; Environmental Abstraction; Knowledge Representation
Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a semantically-informed and geometrically-accurate virtual geographic environment method which allows to use Geographic Information System (GIS) data to automatically built an Informed Virtual Geographic Environment (IVGE). Besides, we propose an abstraction process which uses geometric, toplogic, and semantic characteristics of geographic features in order to build a knowledge-based description of the IVGE relying on a hierarchical graph-based structure. Our IVGE model enables the support of large-scale and complex geographic environments modeling for Situated Multi-Agent Systems (SMAS) in which agents are situated and with which they interact.
Pages: 1 to 10
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: February 23, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4375
ISBN: 978-1-61208-121-2
Location: Gosier, Guadeloupe, France
Dates: from February 23, 2011 to February 28, 2011