| Title |
A Basic Study to Implement a Spatial Reasoning Engine - Reasoning and Visualizing Spatial Relations using a Rule Engine - |
| Authors |
Kim Sung-Ah ; Yeom Jung-Ho |
| Keywords |
Spatial Reasoning Engine ; Rule-based System ; Ontology ; Spatial Reasoning Rules ; Intelligent Space Service |
| Abstract |
This paper present a prototype system called Spatial Reasoning Engine (SRE). The SRE is a rule-based reasoning system designed to perform a high-level reasoning about the spatial properties of a given building data. In order to develop the system, we investigated the structure of building space from the basic level such as connectivity. We concluded that such relations can be reasoned automatically from pure structural descriptions about the building structure as in BIM data. Then, once a rule-based reasoning system is developed by integrating various reasoning rules, higher levels of spatial qualities can be evaluated. Such qualities include escape routing, code checking, and resource allocation planning. We implemented a experimental system using JESS (Java Expert System Shell) with a set of spatial reasoning rules. The system will be able to provide an open API service to other space information systems when it is fully implemented in the future. |