Title: A model for ripple effects analysis of cascading problems in ontology evolution

Authors: Ousmane Sall; Mouhamadou Thiam; Mamadou Bousso; Moussa Lo; Henri Basson

Addresses: Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies (UFR SET), Université de Thies, BP A 967 Thies, Senegal. ' Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies (UFR SET), Université de Thies, BP A 967 Thies, Senegal. ' Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies (UFR SET), Université de Thies, BP A 967 Thies, Senegal. ' Laboratoire d'Analyse Numérique et d'Informatique (LANI), Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences Appliquées et Technologies, Université Gaston Berger, de Saint-Louis - BP 234, Senegal. ' Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signal, et Image de la Côte d'Opale (LISIC)-EA 449, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Calais, France

Abstract: Ontology engineering is one of semantic web's most important activities. Inconsistencies observed on cascading changes of nodes would arise simply as result of any small operation on an ontology component. It is therefore necessary to have tools to evaluate consequent flows on other components as result of an operation on ontology. In this paper, we present an approach that provides an algorithm and a support for ripple effects analysis of cascading problems in ontology evolution by derivation of changes based on corresponding pre-conditions, post-conditions and invariants.

Keywords: change propagation; inconsistencies; ontology evolution; ripple effects; semantic web; cascading changes.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2012.050179

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2012 Vol.7 No.3, pp.171 - 184

Received: 23 Dec 2011
Accepted: 14 May 2012
Published online: 31 Dec 2014 *

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