Abstract

REYNARES, Emiliano; CALIUSCO, María Laura  and  GALLI, María Rosa. Empirical evaluation of business rules mappings for ontology development. RISTI [online]. 2014, n.14, pp.83-99. ISSN 1646-9895.  https://doi.org/10.17013/risti.14.83-99.

The methodologies for the development of ontologies aimed to be used as software artifacts remain to be an open research area. Although the most widely recognized are rooted on UML given the acceptance of that language in the community of software engineering, none of them are fully mature. Recent works propose the mapping of SBVR expressions to ontology statements as a building technique, but just an empirical study comparing SBVR and UML-rooted techniques has been performed until now. This work analyzes the technical feasibility of SBVR to OWL 2 mappings by depicting a first differentiated replication of the original experiment varying the treatments, the size and composition of the experimental units, and comparing the performance of SBVR and ODM-based techniques. The findings allow sustaining the technical feasibility of the SBVR to OWL 2 mappings as an ontology development technique able to be applied by the software engineering community.

Keywords : empirical evaluation; experiment; ontology development; mappings; business rule.

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