Enhancement of Trajectory Ontology Inference Over Domain and Temporal Rules

Capture devices rise large scale trajectory data from moving objects. These devices use different technologies like global navigation satellite system (GNSS), wireless communication, radio-frequency identification (RFID), and other sensors. Huge trajectory data are available today. In this paper, we use an ontological data modeling approach to build a trajectory ontology from such large data. This ontology contains temporal concepts, so we map it to a temporal ontology. We present an implementation framework for declarative and imperative parts of ontology rules in a semantic data store. An inference mechanism is computed over these semantic data. The computational time and memory of the inference increases very rapidly as a function of the data size. For this reason, we propose a two-tier inference filters on data. The primary filter analyzes the trajectory data considering all the possible domain constraints. The analyzed data are considered as the first knowledge base. The secondary filter then computes the inference over the filtered trajectory data and yields to the final knowledge base, that the user can query. Keywords–Trajectory ontology modeling; Ontology inference; Domain rules; Temporal rules; Data filter algorithm.