A New Distributed Expert System to Ontology Evaluation

This paper addresses the increasingly encountered challenge of ontology evaluation. The best known approaches to ontology evaluation focus on the used criteria and model domain. In the present study, we propose a new approach that uses a reasoning tool as distributed expert system based on symbolic structures of facts and rules. The semantic model found is used to verify the ontology consistency and unexpected relationships between the ontological artefacts. The evaluation is based on formal system defined in description logic SHOIN. The results show that our evaluation approach is independent of the conceptualization of domain model and considers the main features of ontology structure. Good experimental studies demonstrate the multidisciplinary applications of our approach.