Incremental Data Uncertainty Handling Using Evidence Combination: A Case Study on Maritime Data Reasoning

Mena B. Habib, Brend Wanders, Jan Flokstra, Maurice van Keulen

Abstract: Semantic incompatibility is a conflict that occurs in the meanings of data. In this paper, we propose an approach for data cleaning by resolving semantic incompatibility. Our approach applies a dynamic and incremental enhancement of data quality. It checks the coherency/conflict of the newly recorded facts/relations against the existing ones. It reasons over the existing information and comes up with new discovered facts/relations. We choose maritime data cleaning as a validation scenario.