Towards a Semiotic Metrics Suite for Product Ontology Evaluation
- Publikations-Art
- Zeitschriftenbeitrag (peer-reviewed)
- Autoren
- Leukel, J.; Sugumaran, V.
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2009
- Veröffentlicht in
- International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
- Verlag
- IGI
- Band/Volume
- 5/
- ISBN / ISSN / eISSN
- 978-1-615-20605-6
- DOI
- 10.4018/jiit.2009080701
- Seite (von - bis)
- 1-15
In recent years, product ontology has been proposed for solving integration problems in product-related information systems such as e-commerce and supply chain management applications. A product ontology provides consensual definitions of concepts and inter-relationships being relevant in a product domain of interest. Adopting such an ontology requires means for assessing their suitability and selecting the “right” product ontology. In this article, the authors (1) propose a metrics suite for product ontology evaluation based on semiotic theory, and (2) demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of the metrics suite using a supply chain model. The contribution of our research is the comprehensive metrics suite that takes into account the various quality dimensions of product ontology.