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An ontology consists of a finite set of entities and relationships among these entities. Relationships in an OWL ontology are given by the object properties, defined as a binary relation between classes in the domain with classes in the range. These relationships define semantic coupling among classes. This paper formally define some metrics to measure semantic coupling among classes in OWL ontologies. Moreover it also describes a visualisation to analyse the proposed metrics using visual analytics techniques. We have implemented a tool to test our metrics with real public ontologies and the results are analysed and discussed.
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Garcia, J., Garcia, F., Theron, R. (2010). Visualising Semantic Coupling among Entities in an OWL Ontology. In: Sicilia, MA., Kop, C., Sartori, F. (eds) Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science. ONTOSE 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16496-5_7
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