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Table 3 Summary of the associations between the characteristics, subcharacteristics and the associated metrics

From: Supporting the analysis of ontology evolution processes through the combination of static and dynamic scaling functions in OQuaRE

OQuaRE characteristic

OQuaRE subcharecteristic

OQuaRE metric

Structural

Formal relations support

RROnto

 

Tangledness

TMOnto

 

Cohesion

LCOMOnto

 

Functional adequacy

Controlled vocabulary

ANOnto

 

Inference

RROnto, CROnto

 

Consistent search and query

ANOnto, RROnto, AROnto, INROnto

 

Knowledge acquisition and representation

ANOnto, RROnto, NOMOnto

 

Maintainability

Modularity

WMCOnto, CBOOnto

 

Analysability

WMCOnto, DITOnto, RFCOnto, NOMOnto, LCOMOnto, CBOOnto

 

Modification stability

WMCOnto NOCOnto RFCOnto LCOMOnto CBOOnto

 

Reliability

Recoverability

WMCOnto, DITOnto, NOMOnto, LCOMOnto,

 

Availability

LCOMOnto

 

Operability

Learnability

WMCOnto, LCOMOnto, RFCOnto, NOMOnto, CBOnto, NOCOnto

 

  1. The associations of the reminding 36 subcharacteristics with metrics can be found at http://miuras.inf.um.es/oquarewiki