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Reasoning about Cardinal Directions between Extended Objects: The Hardness Result

The cardinal direction calculus (CDC) proposed by Goyal and Egenhofer is a very expressive qualitative calculus for directional information of extended objects. Early work has shown that consistency checking of complete networks of basic CDC constraints is tractable while reasoning with the CDC in general is NP-hard. This paper shows, however, if allowing some constraints unspecified, then consistency checking of possibly incomplete networks of basic CDC constraints is already intractable. This draws a sharp boundary between the tractable and intractable subclasses of the CDC. The result is achieved by a reduction from the well-known 3-SAT problem.

preprint2010arXivOpen access

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