Ontology Evaluation Approaches: A Case Study from Agriculture Domain

Walisadeera, Anusha Indika; Ginige, Athula; Wikramanayake, Gihan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_23

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“…Second, it is applied in transversal studies to describe an object, phenomenon, or situation in order to define it or delimit it. This is especially useful when it is very complicated to describe the question, or when evidence is insufficient, not published, excessive or controversial, requiring the interpretation of experts in the subject [21]. In both cases, the Delphi method compares and combines individual opinions and arguments gathered from experts and enables decisions to be taken [22].…”

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Barriers and Facilitators for Adopting Sustainable Soil Management Practices in Mediterranean Olive Groves

et al. 2020

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Soil is a fundamental resource, subject to severe and quick degradation processes because of the pressure of human activities, particularly in many regions of the Mediterranean where agriculture is an important economic activity. It has been proven that the use of sustainable soil management practices can potentially give rise to the creation of a carbon sink, an increase of soil organic matter content, the maintenance of crop productivity and a reduction in erosion. Despite the existence of scientific evidence about the benefits generated by the use of sustainable practices on soil, many farmers are reluctant to adopt them. The objective of this study is to identify and give a hierarchical structure to the factors that condition the adoption of sustainable practices in the management of agricultural soil. The case of olive tree cultivation in Southeast Spain has been studied, using a participatory qualitative methodology. The results show a series of seven principal barriers (information, costs, risk aversion, characteristics of the farm and sustainable practices, macro factors, and cultural barriers) and five facilitators (technology, farmer training, awareness, incentives, and social pressure) for the adoption of the proposed sustainable agricultural practices. The principal political and legislative actions proposed to increase the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices include: administrative control, fostering environmental awareness, technical knowledge, and on-farm demonstrations; and, on the economic and financial level, incorporation of both general incentives and subsidizing specific costs. This study contributes to the development and discussion of intervention proposals that are designed to stimulate the implementation of sustainable practices in agricultural soil management.

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Barriers and Facilitators for Adopting Sustainable Soil Management Practices in Mediterranean Olive Groves

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“…This implies that the ontology does not contain elements outside of the considered context and that the ontology schema is correctly designed. The reason for that is ontology was initially modeled as a domain ontology under the guidance of domain experts to provide relevant information to farmers in Sri Lanka [13], [29]. However, when considering the knowledge base level, the coverage of relationships between individuals (i.e., Recall(OIR, FIR) = 0.44) in a specified context is considerably low.…”

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“…Then, the gathered CQs were converted into the axioms in First-Order Logic and modeled the ontology accordingly [13]. At the end of the development, as usual, the quality of the content was evaluated by analyzing the answers of CQs provided through the ontology with the support of domain experts [29]. In addition to that, the quality of the structure was assessed using the OOPs web-based tool [30].…”

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Towards a Usable Ontology: The Identification of Quality Characteristics for an Ontology-Driven Decision Support System

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Achieving quality in use (i.e., the higher-level quality objectives) is now widely accepted for building a usable system and software product. However, ontology engineering is a discipline for which the quality theories are not yet well developed and adapted and thus, ontology engineering still does not have an agreed methodology and standards for ontology evaluation. As a result, an ontology-driven system may consist of a badly engineered ontology that is not usable. This will in turn cause an adverse effect on the quality in use of the corresponding system. It is necessary to alleviate this problem by formulating an evaluation methodology and standards towards producing a usable ontology particularly targeting an ontology-driven system. It is evident through the literature as well as our practical experience through an agricultural ontology-driven Decision Support System (DSS) that quality in use of the system is tightly coupled with the quality of the ontology. As the first step towards this, we explored the well-established quality theories in system and software engineering to adapt and enhance the quality concepts defined so far in the ontology engineering domain. In the light of this study, we devised an ontology quality approach that guides developers to produce ontologies by avoiding quality issues to make ontology-driven DSSs usable. The proposed approach was exemplified using a use case from the agriculture domain. This research could be a foundation to inspire and assist ontology engineers to rethink about ontology quality from a broader view in developing a usable ontology.

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“…However, according to the current literature [55], there is no agreement on a methodology for validation of ontologies. The choice of a suitable approach depends on the purpose of validation, the application in which the ontology is to be used, and on what aspect of the ontology we are trying to validate and evaluate [56]. For all these reasons, we have chosen to evaluate the BNO ontology by following different validation approaches.…”

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BNO—An ontology for understanding the transittability of complex biomolecular networks

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Zanni-Merk

Beuvron

et al. 2019

Journal of Web Semantics

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Analysis of biological systems is being progressively facilitated by computational tools. Most of these tools are based on qualitative and numerical methods. However, they are not always evident, and there is an increasing need to provide an additional semantic layer. Semantic technologies, especially ontologies, are one of the tools frequently used for this purpose. Indeed, they are indispensable for understanding the semantic knowledge about the operation of cells at a molecular level. We describe here the biomolecular network ontology (BNO) created specially to address the needs of analysing the complex biomolecular network's behaviour. A biomolecular network consists of nodes, denoting cellular entities, and edges, representing interactions among cellular components. The BNO ontology provides a foundation for qualitative simulation of complex biomolecular networks. We test the performance of the proposed BNO ontology by using a real example of a biomolecular network, the bacteriophage T4 gene 32. We illustrate the proposed BNO ontology for reasoning and inferring new knowledge with sets of rules expressed in SWRL. Results demonstrate that the BNO ontology allows to precisely interpret the corresponding semantic context and intelligently model biomolecular networks and their state changes. The Biomolecular Network Ontology (BNO) is freely available at https://github.com/AliAyadi/BNO-ontology-version-1.0.

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Ontology Evaluation Approaches: A Case Study from Agriculture Domain

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Barriers and Facilitators for Adopting Sustainable Soil Management Practices in Mediterranean Olive Groves

Barriers and Facilitators for Adopting Sustainable Soil Management Practices in Mediterranean Olive Groves

Towards a Usable Ontology: The Identification of Quality Characteristics for an Ontology-Driven Decision Support System

BNO—An ontology for understanding the transittability of complex biomolecular networks

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