The Ontolingua Server: a tool for collaborative ontology construction
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: innovative applications of the World Wide Web
Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach
Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach
Software Tool Evaluation Methodology
ICDCS '95 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Web ontology segmentation: analysis, classification and use
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Just the right amount: extracting modules from ontologies
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Ontology module extraction for ontology reuse: an ontology engineering perspective
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Evaluating and selecting software packages: A review
Information and Software Technology
Criteria and Evaluation for Ontology Modularization Techniques
Modular Ontologies
Survey of modular ontology techniques and their applications in the biomedical domain
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering - Selected papers from the IEEE Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), July 13-15, 2008
Requirements-oriented methodology for evaluating ontologies
Information Systems
An entropy inspired measure for evaluating ontology modularization
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Knowledge capture
A semantic importing approach to knowledge reuse from multiple ontologies
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
A logical framework for modularity of ontologies
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
Task Oriented Evaluation of Module Extraction Techniques
ISWC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
Evaluation of knowledge management tools using AHP
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Combining OWL ontologies using E-Connections
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Measuring design complexity of semantic web ontologies
Journal of Systems and Software
Utility Evaluation of Tools for Collaborative Development and Maintenance of Ontologies
EDOCW '10 Proceedings of the 2010 14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
Ontology modularization for knowledge selection: experiments and evaluations
DEXA'07 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Evaluation of the OQuaRE framework for ontology quality
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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The Semantic Web and ontologies have received increased attention in recent years. The delivery of well-designed ontologies enhances the effect of Semantic Web services, but building ontologies from scratch requires considerable time and effort. Modularizing ontologies and integrating ontology modules to a given context help users effectively develop ontologies and revitalize ontology dissemination. Therefore, various tools for modularizing ontologies have been developed. However, selecting an appropriate tool to fit a given context is difficult because the assumptions for the approaches greatly vary. Therefore, a suitable framework is required to compare and help screen the most suitable modularization tool. In this research, we propose a new evaluation framework for selecting an appropriate ontology modularization tool. We present three aspects of tool evaluation as the main dimensions for the assessment of modularization tools: tool performance, data performance, and usability. This study provides an implicit evaluation and an empirical analysis of three modularization tools. It also provides an evaluation method for ontology modularization, enabling ontology engineers to compare different modularization tools and easily choose an appropriate one for the production of qualifying ontology modules. The experimental results indicate that the proposed evaluation criteria for ontology modularization tools are valid and effective. This research provides a useful method for assessing and selecting ontology modularization tools. Modularization performance, data performance, and usability are the three modularization aspects designed and applied to the context of ontology. We provide a new focus on the comprehensive framework to evaluate the performance and usability of ontology modularization tools. The proposed framework should be of value to both ontology engineers, who are interested in ontology modularization, and to practitioners, who need information on how to evaluate and select a specific type of ontology tool in accordance with the requirements of the individual environment.