A Study on Distributed Parallel SWRL Inference in an In-Memory-Based Cluster Environment

Wan-Gon Lee, Seok-Hyun Bae, Young-Tack Park

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2018.45.3.224

Recently, there are many of studies on SWRL reasoning engine based on user-defined rules in a distributed environment using a large-scale ontology. Unlike the schema based axiom rules, efficient inference orders cannot be defined in SWRL rules. There is also a large volumet of network shuffled data produced by unnecessary iterative processes. To solve these problems, in this study, we propose a method that uses Map-Reduce algorithm and distributed in-memory framework to deduce multiple rules simultaneously and minimizes the volume data shuffling occurring between distributed machines in the cluster. For the experiment, we use WiseKB ontology composed of 200 million triples and 36 user-defined rules. We found that the proposed reasoner makes inferences in 16 minutes and is 2.7 times faster than previous reasoning systems that used LUBM benchmark dataset.