In this article, we investigate the problem of checking consistency in a hybrid formalism, which combines two essential formalisms in qualitative spatial reasoning: topological formalism and cardinal direction formalism. Instead of using conventional composition tables, we investigate the interactions between topological and cardinal directional relations with the aid of rules that are used efficiently in many research fields such as content-based image retrieval. These rules are shown to be sound, i.e. the deductions are logically correct. Based on these rules, an improved constraint propagation algorithm is introduced to enforce the path consistency. The results of computational complexity of checking consistency for constraint satisfaction problems based on various subsets of this hybrid formalism are presented at the end of this article. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.
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Sun, H., & Li, W. (2005). Heterogeneous spatial reasoning. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3571 LNAI, pp. 836–847). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11518655_70
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