A semantic metrics suite for evaluating modular ontologies

Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 745-770

  Ensan, Faezeh ^a   Du, Weichang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cohesion; Coupling; Description logics; Measurements; Modular ontologies; Ontologies; Ontology design; Ontology evaluation; Reasoning performance; Semantic metrics

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; DATA DESCRIPTION; MEASUREMENT; SEMANTICS;

COHESION; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; MODULAR ONTOLOGIES; ONTOLOGY DESIGN; ONTOLOGY EVALUATIONS; REASONING PERFORMANCE; SEMANTIC METRICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84892978712     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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