Techniques for reliably estimating development efforts are a fundamental requirement for a wide-scale dissemination of ontologies in business contexts. In this paper we account fo...
Reliable methods to assess the costs and benefits of ontologies are an important instrument to demonstrate the tangible business value of semantic technologies within enterprises,...
Elena Paslaru Bontas Simperl, Igor O. Popov, Tobia...
The Function Point Method, estimation by analogy, and algorithmic modeling are three of the most commonly applied methods used to estimate the costs and worker hours neededfor a s...
There is an assumption that ontology developers will use a top-down approach by using a foundational ontology, because it purportedly speeds up ontology development and improves qu...
For constructing semantically rich service descriptions in Grid services, emerging ontologies are being used. To generate ontologies, an issue named "ontology bottleneck"...