简介:Thispaperproposestheprincipleofcomprehensiveknowledgediscovery.Unlikemostofthecurrentknowledgediscoverymethods,thecomprehensiveknowledgediscoveryconsidersboththespatialrelationsandattributesofspatialentitiesorobjects.Weintroducethetheoryofspatialknowledgeexpressionsystemandsomeconceptsincludingcomprehensiveknowledgediscoveryandspatialunioninformationtable(SUIT).Intheory,SUITrecordsallinformationcontainedinthestudiedobjects,butinreality,becauseofthecomplexityandvarietiesofspatialrelations,onlythosefactorsofinteresttousareselected.Inordertofindoutthecomprehensiveknowledgefromspatialdatabases,anefficientcomprehensiveknowledgediscoveryalgorithmcalledrecycledalgorithm(RAR)issuggested.