Mathematics and Computer Science, Volume 2

13A Hybrid Approach to Ontology Evaluation

Aastha Mishra^⋆ and Preetvanti Singh

Department of Physics & Computer Science, Dayalbagh Education Institute, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

In last few decades, researchers have been motivated to facilitate ontology in several fields. In medical science, ontology is used to describe the theory of medical vocabularies and the correlation shared among them, thus permitting the sharing of medical knowledge. Definition based on ontology of disease allows each class of disease to be classified in a formalized structure singularly and along with the discussion of ontological realism for the treatment and diagnosis of disease. This paper uses a hybrid approach to evaluate ontology for epilepsy disease. A multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) method is used to decide the best ontology provided by Bio-portal to select the best suitable characteristics for epilepsy disease.

Keywords: Ontology, ontology evaluation, AHP, epilepsy, MCDM

13.1 Introduction

Nowadays, the single resource most critical for top management in an organization to sustain competitive advantage is knowledge. An organization can have competitive edge over its competitors by building an excellent process to manage knowledge. Ontology is a static knowledge representation method that includes definitions of basic concepts in a domain and relations among them which are machine interpretable. The information retrieval quality is improved from a keyword-based retrieval to knowledge-based ...