Ontology evaluation is the task of measuring the quality of an ontology. It enables us to answer the following main … question: How to assess the quality of an ontology for the Web? In this thesis a theoretical framework and several methods …

effect of this on model validation metrics. We show that ignoring correlation in multivariate data can lead to misleading …Two major issues associated with model validation are addressed here. First, we present a maximum likelihood approach … to define and evaluate a model validation metric. The advantage of this approach is it is more easily applied to …

phenomena in some domain. High-quality conceptual-modeling work is important because it facilitates early detection and …

With the help of text Mining methods a product specific ontology from online reviews and appropriate manuals is built … up semi-automatedly. Concepts are deposited in the ontology with her mutual relations to which the opinions and attitudes … of the customers are related. The product specific ontology clarifies the opinions and attitudes of the customers. The …

incentive structures a cross all 50 states. SWAT reports three metrics to characterize residential wind economics in each state …

Studies of the costs of climate change policies have utilized a variety of measures or metrics for summarizing costs … ''Equivalent Variation''). Even when calculated using a single model, these metrics do not necessarily give similar magnitudes of … theoretically superior to the other cost metrics in ranking policies. When regulators put forward new economic or regulatory …

explicit and objective metrics. The clarity provided by such metrics enables each laboratory and our common customers to …