An Algorithm Tool for Atom Decomposition and Interaction: AD Visualiser

Abstract

With the rapid development of software-defined network and network function virtualization technology, the scale of infrastructure and the number of available resources in cloud platforms continue to grow. It is also be used in AD Visualiser. AD is a visualisation tool for displaying the atomic decomposition (AD) of OWL ontologies. As the size of ontologies increases, ontology engineers become more difficult to understand and reuse ontologies. Atomic decomposition (AD) is a modular structure to help ontology engineers modularly manage ontologies. It decomposes ontologies into sets of atoms, with dependency, based on modules that provide strong logical guarantees (such as locality-based modules). This paper describes the design and implementation process of AD Visualiser and discusses its usability for ontology engineers in their daily work. For example, using AD Visualiser, ontology engineers avoid choosing signatures and determining the extraction results. They can extract modules very simply and faster. Besides, the graph of AD’s modular structure should be helpful for engineers to intuitively explore and comprehend ontologies.