Towards a Declarative Spatial Reasoning System

摘要

We present early results on the development of a declarative spatial reasoning system within the context of the Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) framework. The system is capable of modelling and reasoning about qualitative spatial relations pertaining to multiple spatial domains, i.e., one or more aspects of space such as topology, and intrinsic and extrinsic orientation. It provides a seamless mechanism for combining formal qualitative spatial calculi within one framework, and provides a Prolog-based declarative interface for AI applications to abstract and reason about quantitative, geometric information in a qualitative manner. Based on previous work concerning the formalisation of the framework, we present ongoing work to develop the theoretical result into a comprehensive reasoning system (and Prolog-based library) which may be used independently, or as a logic-based module within hybrid intelligent systems.