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An Application of Advanced Spatio-Temporal Formalisms to Behavioural Ecology

A. Raffaetà, T. Ceccarelli, D. Centeno, F. Giannotti, A. Massolo, C. Parent, C. Renso, S. Spaccapietra, F. Turini

Geography  Spatio-temporal reasoning  geographical information systems  behavioural ecology  Databases  spatio-temporal reasoning  Information Systems  conceptual modelling  Ecology  Representation  Planning and Development  constraint programming 

There is great potential for the development of many new applications using data on mobile objects and mobile regions. To promote these kinds of appli- cations advanced data management techniques for the representation and analysis of mobility-related data are needed. Together with application experts (behavioural ecologists), we investigate how two novel data management approaches may help. We focus on a case study concerning the analysis of fauna behaviour, in particular crested porcupines, which represents a typical example of mobile object monitoring. The first technique we experiment with is a recently developed conceptual spatio- temporal data modelling approach, MADS. This is used to model the schema of the database suited to our case study. Relying on this first outcome a subset of the problem is represented in the logical language MuTACLP. This allows us to formalise and solve the queries which enable the behavioural ecologists to derive crested porcupines behaviour from the raw data on animal movements. Finally, we investigate the support from a commercial Geographic Information System (GIS)

Source: Geoinformatica an international journal 12 (2008): 37–72. doi:10.1007/s10707-006-0016-6

Publisher: Computer Science Journals,, Kuala Lumpur , Malesia


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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:185511,
	title = {An Application of Advanced Spatio-Temporal Formalisms to Behavioural Ecology},
	author = {A.  Raffaetà and T.  Ceccarelli and D.  Centeno and F.  Giannotti and A.  Massolo and C.  Parent and C.  Renso and S.  Spaccapietra and F.  Turini},
	publisher = {Computer Science Journals,, Kuala Lumpur , Malesia},
	doi = {10.1007/s10707-006-0016-6},
	journal = {Geoinformatica  an international journal},
	volume = {12},
	pages = {37–72},
	year = {2008}
}