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Composing Cardinal Direction Relations Basing on Interval Algebra

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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2010)

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Direction relations between extended spatial objects are important commonsense knowledge. Skiadopoulos proposed a formal model for representing direction relations between compound regions (the finite union of simple regions), known as SK-model. It perhaps is currently one of most cognitive plausible models for qualitative direction information, and has attracted interests from artificial intelligence and geographic information system. Originating from Allen first using composition table to process time interval constraints; composing has become the key technique in qualitative spatial reasoning to check the consistency. Due to the massive number of basic directions in SK-model, its composition becomes extraordinary complex. This paper proposed a novel algorithm for the composition. Basing the concepts of smallest rectangular directions and its original directions, it transforms the composition of basic cardinal direction relations into the composition of interval relations corresponding to Allen’s interval algebra. Comparing with existing methods, this algorithm has quite good dimensional extendibility, that is, it can be easily transferred to the tridimensional space with a few modifications.

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    Juan Chen, Haiyang Jia, Dayou Liu & Changhai Zhang

  2. Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China

    Juan Chen, Haiyang Jia, Dayou Liu & Changhai Zhang

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Chen, J., Jia, H., Liu, D., Zhang, C. (2010). Composing Cardinal Direction Relations Basing on Interval Algebra. In: Bi, Y., Williams, MA. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15280-1_13

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