2011
DOI: 10.1007/s10799-011-0094-5
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Cohesion and coupling metrics for ontology modules

Abstract: In recent years, an increasing number of ontologies and semantic web applications have been developed and used. A conscious effort has been made to develop methods to modularize ontologies. These methods contribute to building a new ontology. However, few studies have focused on the evaluative methods for ontology modules. In this study, we propose novel metrics to measure ontology modularity. To evaluate the ontology modules, we introduce cohesion and coupling based on the theory of software metrics. A cohesi… Show more

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“…ontology level and class level. Authors in [39] evaluate the complexity metrics theoretically against Weyuker's properties and also practically by using ontologies available from Swoogle [45]. It has been underlined that software design complexity measure can help ontology designer identify the problem area that hinders maintenance and reuse of ontology, and thus degrades its quality.…”
Section: Software Quality Measurement For Semantic Web Applicationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…ontology level and class level. Authors in [39] evaluate the complexity metrics theoretically against Weyuker's properties and also practically by using ontologies available from Swoogle [45]. It has been underlined that software design complexity measure can help ontology designer identify the problem area that hinders maintenance and reuse of ontology, and thus degrades its quality.…”
Section: Software Quality Measurement For Semantic Web Applicationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Out of the most significant works on ontology quality assessment listed here, 2 [35,36] are validated through a standard set of public ontologies. While [36] and [40] use case studies for their method's demonstration and evaluation, [39] and [34] use expert users for theoretical validation. In addition to expert users, [34] uses Swoogle tool, and [39] uses SWOOP tool for empirical validation.…”
Section: Observationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ensan and Du proposed four metrics NSLD, NMLD, NSED and NMED, which concentrate on measuring the semantics of ontologies for modular ontologies 24 . Oh et al 25 also proposed some ontology cohesion and coupling metrics for modular ontologies.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…By the extensive analysis of most of the existing ontology metrics, we summarize the measurement entities of the existing ontology metrics 12,13,14,15,16,17,24,25 , most of which mainly include concepts/classes, properties, class inheritance, axioms, instances, fanouts, fanins, paths and partitions. In these types of measurement entities, classes, properties, class inheritance, axioms and instances belong to the fine-grained types of measurement entities because they are the basic elements consisting of ontologies.…”
Section: Entity Summarizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Oh [69] proposes a novel metrics to measure ontology modularity. Ontology-based service composition is introduced in [87,37].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%