The evaluation of ontologies is still an emerging field. A set of preliminary ideas and
frameworks have been suggested in the literature. This chapter collects ontology quality …

Ontologies can represent technological enablers for knowledge elicitation and management
in different kinds of organizations, especially with the exponential growth of sources and …

The research area of ontology engineering seems to have reached a certain level of
maturity, considering the vast amount of contemporary methods and tools for formalising and …

Most of the current methodologies for building ontologies rely on specialized knowledge
engineers. This is in contrast to real-world settings, where the need for maintenance of …

A prerequisite to the success of the Semantic Web are shared ontologies which enable the
seamless exchange of information between different parties. Engineering a shared ontology …

Semantic Web is a succession of the current world wide web in which all the contents,
resources and services over the web will have well-defined meanings. Due to this well …

Existing mature ontology engineering approaches are based on some basic assumptions
that are often neglected in practice. Ontologies often need to be built in a decentralized way …

Cyclic debugging is one of the most important and most commonly used activities in
program development. During cyclic debugging, a program is repeatedly re-executed to …

Ontology development is time and money consuming as well as an error-prone process; the
need for an embedded mechanism that evaluates quality and acceptance of the resultant …

Ontology is being a fundamental form of knowledge representation about the real world. In
the computer science perspective, ontology defines a set of representational primitives with …