INTEGRATING MULTI-AGENT, OBJECT-ORIENTED, AND ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVED AUTOMATED MAP GENERALIZATION

摘要

This paper summarizes some of the key architectural elements and reviews some of the results of the AGENT project, a research project funded by the European Commission between 12/1997 and 11/2000 as part of the Esprit Programme. The project involved five partners and successfully developed a prototype system to deal with automated map generalization. The prototype is based on Laser-Scan's object-oriented GIS and map production system LAMPS2, uses a multi-agent approach to model cartographic objects and their treatment in generalisation, and uses various newly developed geometric algorithms to measure and transform the cartographic objects in the generalisation process.