On redundancy in linked geospatial data
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- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2015, 1376 (January)
- Issue Date:
- 2015-01-01
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RCC8 is a constraint language that serves for qualitative spatial representation and reasoning by encoding the topological relations between spatial entities. As such, RCC8 has been recently adopted by GeoSPARQL in an effort to enrich the Semantic Web with qualitative spatial relations. We focus on the redundancy that these data might harbor, which can throttle graph related applications, such as storing, representing, querying, and reasoning. For a RCC8 network N a constraint is redundant, if removing that constraint from N does not change the solution set of N. A prime network of N is a network which contains no redundant constraints, but has the same solution set as N. In this paper, we present a practical approach for obtaining the prime networks of RCC8 networks that originate from the Semantic Web, by exploiting the sparse and loosely connected structure of their constraint graphs, and, consequently, contribute towards offering Linked Geospatial Data of high quality. Experimental evaluation exhibits a vast decrease in the total number of non-redundant constraints that we can obtain from an initial network, while it also suggests that our approach significantly boosts the state-of-the-art approach.
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