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We present in this contribution a language to describe environmental changes in spatial-aware simulations from the requirement view. For this language, we model the expression of spatio-temporal change patterns named variation with explicit components. Then, we analyze three categories of variations based on the expression model. This step determines possible types of variations that may appear in descriptions of environments. After that, mapping principles for mapping these types to software artifacts are introduced. Our work provides support to prototyping simulated environment generators from conceptual descriptions. By processing a description in our language, a skeleton of software which can produce the described variations is generated.
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The presented work is supported by the graduated school Safe Automation of Maritime Systems (SAMS), funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Wu, L., Brinkhoff, T., Hahn, A. (2018). Modeling Spatio-Temporal Variations for the Language-Driven Development of Simulated Environment Generators. In: Fogliaroni, P., Ballatore, A., Clementini, E. (eds) Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). COSIT 2017. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63946-8_28
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