RESP: A Computer Aided OWL REasoner Selection Process

Existing approaches for selecting the most appropriate reasoner for different semantic applications mainly relies on discussions between application developers and reasoner experts. However this approach will become inadequate with the increasing adoption of Semantic Web technologies in applications from different domains and the rapid development of OWL reasoning technologies. This work proposes RESP, a computer aided reasoner selection process designed to perform reasoner selection for different applications and so reduce the effort and communication overhead required to select the most appropriate reasoner. Preliminary evaluation results show that RESP successfully helps application developers to select the most appropriate reasoner, or at least narrow down the number of candidate reasoners to consider. Contributions of this work are two folds: (1) the design of a (relatively simple but useful) computer aided OWL reasoner selection process, and (2) the identification and discussion of a set of example application characteristics that can affect the OWL reasoner selection.