Zooming In on Collective Motion

Zena Wood and Antony Galton

In Mehul Bhatt, Hans Guesgen and Shyamanta Hazarika (editors), Spatio-Temporal Dynamics, Proceedings of Workshop 21, 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 16-20, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal, pages 25-30.

Abstract

The movement patterns of collectives are probably one of the most important properties of a collective that we may wish to qualitatively reason about. However, despite their ubiquity in our everyday lives, it would appear that we do not currently possess the necessary tools. Granularity plays a crucial role in the description of motion. Therefore, if a framework is to be developed that allows the sufficient representation and qualitative reasoning power about collective motion, it must be possible to consider the framework over different spatial and temporal granularities. Such a framework is presented and explored through the use of examples.
Antony Galton
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