[Pellet-users] [ANN] PelletSpatial 0.1

[Evren Sirin]

Dear Pellet users,

We are happy to announce the first release of PelletSpatial which
extends Pellet with qualitative spatial reasoning capabilities. It
supports reasoning with the well-known qualitative spatial
representation framework Region Connection Calculus (RCC). More
information and link to download can be found at the following link:

http://clarkparsia.com/pellet/spatial

PelletSpatial supports checking the consistency of spatial relations
expressed using RCC-8 and computes new spatial inferences from
asserted relations. The spatial relations can be expressed in RDF/OWL
and combined with arbitrary domain ontologies. PelletSpatial can
answer SPARQL queries that mix spatial relations with arbitrary
RDF/OWL relations. You can find more examples in the PelletSpatial
distribution.

As the version number implies, this is an early prototype and should
be treated as alpha software. We are currently working on improvements
to both extend the expressivity and improve the reasoning performance.
We welcome questions, comments, and feedback about PelletSpatial on
this mailing list.

PelletSpatial has been developed primarily by Markus Stocker with
occasional help from the C&P team. Big kudos to Markus for developing
PelletSpatial.

Cheers,
Evren