Title :
Evaluating Ontologies: Towards a Cognitive Measure of Quality
Author :
Fang, Jennifer ; Evermann, Joerg
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Manage., Victoria Univ. of Wellington, Wellington
Abstract :
Business process models are an important tool in understanding and improving the efficiency of a business and in the design of information systems. Recent work has evaluated business process modelling languages against upper-level ontologies on the assumption that these ontologies are adequate representations of the general process domain. In this paper, we present a method to test this assumption. Our method is based on principles of cognitive psychology and demonstrated using the BWW and SUMO upper-level ontologies.
Keywords :
ontologies (artificial intelligence); software performance evaluation; software quality; business process modelling languages; cognitive measure; cognitive psychology; Conferences; Humans; Information management; Information systems; Management information systems; Ontologies; Psychology; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
EDOC Conference Workshop, 2007. EDOC '07. Eleventh International IEEE
Conference_Location :
Annapolis, MD
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3338-4
DOI :
10.1109/EDOCW.2007.11
