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Design Principles of OntoCAPE

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Concluding the description of OntoCAPE, we will subsequently present the major principles according to which the ontology has been designed. Basically, design principles are objective criteria for guiding and evaluating the design decisions made during ontology development (Gruber 1995). A number of design principles for information modeling in general, and ontology engineering in particular, have been suggested in the literature (e.g., Gruber 1995; Fox and Grüninger 1998; Arpírez et al. 1998; Chandrasekaran et al. 1999; Gómez-Pérez et al. 2004; Rector et al. 2004; Smith 2006; and others). Compliance with these acknowledged principles is a credible indicator for the quality of an ontology.

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  1. AVT-Process Systems Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Marquardt, Jan Morbach Dipl. Ing. & Andreas Wiesner Dipl. Ing.

  2. Fac. Engineering & Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH, Guildford, UK

    Dr. Aidong Yang

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Marquardt, W., Morbach, J., Wiesner, A., Yang, A. (2010). Design Principles of OntoCAPE. In: OntoCAPE. RWTHedition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04655-1_10

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