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This paper presents an abstraction of a vague and rapidly-changing environment, an urban disaster space, and a reasoning engine which recognizes and describes the motion of rescue agents as they traverse the disaster space. More specifically, we present a qualitative abstraction of the Robocup Rescue simulation environment, and implement a commentator engine, which constructs a qualitative representation of the changes in the environment and produces descriptions of the agents’ motion by recognizing patterns which motion can take. The patterns recognized are elements of a set of formalizations that qualify each type of motion pattern based on a qualitative representation of vague spatiotemporal moving objects. We also present a set of performance metrics to evaluate our qualitative representation.
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Ibrahim, Z.M., Tawfik, A.Y. (2005). A Qualitative Spatio-temporal Abstraction of a Disaster Space. In: Zucker, JD., Saitta, L. (eds) Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation. SARA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3607. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11527862_20
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