A method of road network selection based on case and ontology reasoning

The selection of road network is a fuzzy decision-making process. Aiming at problems such as noise, conflict and human decision-making in the cartographic generalization algorithm based on general case reasoning, this paper proposes a road network selection method which uses ontology to organize cases and conduct knowledge reasoning. In this paper, we extract expert cases from series scale map and describe them formally according to ternary model. To realize knowledge reasoning, these cases are used to build a domain ontology repository, reorganizing their representation format. Then, ontology rule extension helps to identify and eliminate noise and conflict cases. Additionally, with methods of semantic mapping and graph query, the semantic and geometric features of the road network to be selected are associated with the ontology repository to realize road network selection automatically.