| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/C014502/1 |
| Title: |
Spatio-temporal Geographical Information Science |
| Principal Investigator: |
Galton, Dr AP |
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| Department: |
Engineering Computer Science and Maths |
| Organisation: |
University of Exeter |
| Scheme: |
Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
29 March 2005 |
Ends: |
28 June 2005 |
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2,563
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Artificial Intelligence |
Image & Vision Computing |
| Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
Modelling & simul. of IT sys. |
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The proposed research is to investigate ways of modelling, for the purposes of a Spatial Information System, a class of geographical phenomena which I call multi-aspect . Multi-aspect phenomena may present themselves as objects, events or processes when described from different points of view. Examples include floods, wildfires, storms, weather fronts, epidemics, pollution incidents, invasions, processions, protest marches, traffic james, bees swarming, locust plagues. We cannot do justice to these phenomena in an information system which requires a clean separation between objects and events. What is needed is an ontology of processes which allows us to explicitly model the way in which the multiple aspects (i.e., the different possible views, either objects-like or event-like or something in between) arise as facets of some common underlying phenomenon. The aim of the project will be to define appropriate formal structures to form the basis for a workable ontology of multi-aspect phenomena. We will need to define the kinds of spatio-temporal extents which are needed to support these, to define the various operations by which the different views can be generated, and to show how the properties ascribed to the different views are related to each other and to the properties of the original extent. The theory will need to be sufficiently grounded in reality that we can without undue distortion apply it to the various examples of multi-aspect phenomena listed above.
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