Ranking Semantic Web Ontologies with ELECTRE

Fonou-Dombeu, Jean Vincent

doi:10.1109/icabcd.2019.8851051

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“…Essentially, ontology selection is a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) problem, as there are multiple ontologies to choose from whilst considering multiple criteria. Despite this, very few studies have applied MCDM methods for the task of ontology selection [20][21][22][23]. This study explores the applicability of a prominent branch of MCDM, the ELECTRE family [24], for the task of selecting appropriate ontologies for reuse.…”

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“…The survey paper by Govindan et al [11] can be consulted with for more studies pertaining to the applications of ELEC-TRE. Surprisingly, despite the wide usage of the ELECTRE algorithms in various fields, there is very little work done with ELECTRE in the field of ontology and ontological engineering [21,23].…”

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“…One study was performed by Fonou-Dombeu in 2019 [21] where the ELECTRE I model was applied to rank a dataset of ontologies. The dataset comprised 70 ontologies with 8 complexity metrics used as attributes.…”

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The field of artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding at a rapid pace. Ontology and the field of ontological engineering is an invaluable component of AI, as it provides AI the ability to capture and express complex knowledge and data in a form that encourages computation, inference, reasoning, and dissemination. Accordingly, the research and applications of ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in recent years. However, due to the complexity involved with ontological engineering, it is encouraged that users reuse existing ontologies as opposed to creating ontologies de novo. This in itself has a huge disadvantage as the task of selecting appropriate ontologies for reuse is complex as engineers and users may find it difficult to analyse and comprehend ontologies. It is therefore crucial that techniques and methods be developed in order to reduce the complexity of ontology selection for reuse. Essentially, ontology selection is a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) problem, as there are multiple ontologies to choose from whilst considering multiple criteria. However, there has been little usage of MCDM methods in solving the problem of selecting ontologies for reuse. Therefore, in order to tackle this problem, this study looks to a prominent branch of MCDM, known as the ELimination Et. Choix Traduisant la RÉalite (ELECTRE). ELECTRE is a family of decision-making algorithms that model and provide decision support for complex decisions comprising many alternatives with many characteristics or attributes. The ELECTRE algorithms are extremely powerful and they have been applied successfully in a myriad of domains, however, they have only been studied to a minimal degree with regards to ontology ranking and selection. In this study the ELECTRE algorithms were applied to aid in the selection of ontologies for reuse, particularly, three applications of ELECTRE were studied. The first application focused on ranking ontologies according to their complexity metrics. The ELECTRE I, II, III, and IV models were applied to rank a dataset of 200 ontologies from the BioPortal Repository, with 13 complexity metrics used as attributes. Secondly, the ELECTRE Tri model was applied to classify the 200 ontologies into three classes according to their complexity metrics. A preference-disaggregation approach was taken, and a genetic algorithm was designed to infer the thresholds and parameters for the ELECTRE Tri model. In the third application a novel ELECTRE model was developed, named ZPLTS-ELECTRE II, where the concept of Z-Probabilistic Linguistic Term Set (ZPLTS) was combined with the traditional ELECTRE II algorithm. The ZPLTS-ELECTRE II model enables multiple decision-makers to evaluate ontologies (group decision-making), as well as the ability to use natural language to provide their evaluations. The model was applied to rank 9 ontologies according to five complexity metrics and five qualitative usability metrics. The results of all three applications were analysed, compared, and contrasted, in order to understand the applicability and effectiveness of the ELECTRE algorithms for the task of selecting ontologies for reuse. These results constitute interesting perspectives and insights for the selection and reuse of ontologies.

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