How do we measure and improve the quality of a hierarchical ontology?

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2363-2373

  Beydoun, Ghassan ^a   Lopez Lorca, Antonio A ^a   García Sánchez, Francisco ^b   Martínez Béjar, Rodrigo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data model; Ontology; Ontology evaluation; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

HUMAN-MACHINE; MEDIUM SIZE; ONTOLOGICAL ELEMENTS; QUALITY CONSTRAINTS; QUALITY METRICS; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SUPPORTING TOOL;

DATA STRUCTURES; MAINTAINABILITY; TAXONOMIES; UNDERPINNINGS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 80053564197     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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