Evaluating ontologies: Towards a cognitive measure of quality

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.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: IS
• Authors: Joerg Evermann, Jennifer Fang
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Business Process, IS 2010, SUMO Upper-level Ontologies, Upper-level Ontologies