A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling
IEEE Software
CYC: a large-scale investment in knowledge infrastructure
Communications of the ACM
Integrated process modeling: an ontological evaluation
Information Systems - The 11th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*
Predicting how ontologies for the semantic web will evolve
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
Evaluating ontological decisions with OntoClean
Communications of the ACM - Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
Towards a standard upper ontology
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
The Architecture of Cognition
Towards a Deeper Understanding of Quality in Requirements Engineering
CAiSe '95 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A Comparative Study of Ontology Languages and Tools
CAiSE '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Improving the Quality of Entity Relationship Models - Experience in Research and Practice
ER '98 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Metrics for Evaluating the Quality of Entity Relationship Models
ER '98 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
The Guidelines of Modeling - An Approach to Enhance the Quality in Information Models
ER '98 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Ontological Evaluation of Enterprise Systems Interoperability Using ebXML
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
A Tableau Decision Procedure for $\mathcal{SHOIQ}$
Journal of Automated Reasoning
Handbook on Ontologies
A study of the evolution of the representational capabilities of process modeling grammars
CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Concept maps as the first step in an ontology construction method
Information Systems
Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
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Ontologies are formal specifications of shared conceptualizations of a domain. Important applications of ontologies include distributed knowledge-based systems, such as the semantic web, and the evaluation of modelling languages, e.g. for business process or conceptual modelling. These applications require formal ontologies of good quality. The quality of a formal ontology requires both a good conceptualization of a domain and a good specification of the conceptualization. In this paper, we focus on the latter aspect, and present a method to test how well a specification of a formal ontology corresponds to a conceptualization of a domain held by ontology users. Our experimental method is based on principles of cognitive psychology. We present two experiments to demonstrate our method using upper-level ontologies.