Re: looking for a problem's name and possibly algorithm

[Robert Durkacz]

Francesco Potortì wrote:

> The state of the system in fact represents the position of a person in
> an environment, and the events are generated by the person moving inside
> a triggering sensors.  The states are positions inside the environment,
> the likelihood vector shows a guess of the person's position in the
> environment, and the evolution of the system and the vector is driven by
> the movements of the person.
>
> So, if the person's movements are deterministic, I do not think that I
> can call this a stochastic process.  Yet, I don't know the person's
> position for sure, and I must guess it from the triggered events (which
> may not be reliable).
>
> Does this process of guessing have a standard name?

I do not have a straight answer for you but two observations, offered
just in case they help. It is a tracking problem, and the classic
solution to a similar, but different, problem is the Kalman filter.