Dynamic object-oriented geospatial modeling

Authors

  • Tomáš Richta Department of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Information Technology,` Brno University of Technology
  • Martin Hrubý Department of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Information Technology,` Brno University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/gi.4.2

Keywords:

dynamic, object-oriented, modeling, geospatial, methodology, DEVS, GIS, database

Abstract

Published literature about moving objects (MO) simplifies the problem to the representation and storage of moving points, moving lines, or moving regions. The main insufficiency of this approach is lack of MO inner structure and dynamics modeling – the autonomy of moving agent. This paper describes basics of the object-oriented geospatial methodology for modeling complex systems consisting of agents, which move within spatial environment. The main idea is that during the agent movement, different kinds of connections with other moving or stationary objects are established or disposed, based on some spatial constraint satisfaction or nonfulfilment respectively. The methodology is constructed with regard to following two main conditions – 1) the inner behavior of agents should be represented by any formalism, e.g.  Petri net, finite state machine, etc., and 2) the spatial characteristic of environment should be supplied by any information system, that is able to store defined set of spatial types, and support defined set of spatial operations. Finally, the methodology is demonstrated on simple simulation model of tram transportation system.

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2009-02-01

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Vol. 4 (2009)

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