NDLI: The role of ontologies in the verification and validation of knowledge based systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bench-Capon, T.J.M.
Copyright Year	1998
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Liverpool Univ., UK (Bench-Capon, T.J.M.)
Abstract	The author gives some preliminary examination of the ways in which an ontology-an explicit specification of the conceptualisation of the domain-can support the verification and validation of a knowledge based system. The discussion is focussed on a simple, well known example, relating to the identification of animals. Key elements of the support provided by the ontology relate to: attempting to give coherence to the domain conceptualisation; making the role of experts in verification and validation more structured and less at the mercy of interpretation; constraining the number of test cases required to give good coverage of the possible cases; and structuring the testing to give better assurance of its efficacy, and a possible basis for greater automation of the testing process. Finally the author makes some brief remarks on the relation between the ontology of a knowledge based system, and a database and its schema.
Starting Page	64
Ending Page	69
File Size	29729
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818683538
DOI	10.1109/DEXA.1998.707381
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-08-26
Publisher Place	Austria
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Ontologies Knowledge based systems Automatic testing Computer science Animal structures Automation Knowledge acquisition Artificial intelligence
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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