Assessment of Ontology-based Tools: Systemizing the Scenario Approach
Alain Giboin, Fabien Gandon, Olivier Corby, and Rose Dieng - Proceedings of EON2002: Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools Workshop at the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management EKAW 2002, Siguenza (Spain), 30th September 2002, Edited by Jürgen Angele, York Sure, pages 63-73Abstract: Scenarios have been already used for designing and evaluating ontology-based tools. For example, the so-called "motivating scenarios" are a core component of the TOVE ontological engineering method elaborated by Grüninger and Fox (1995; Uschold and Grüninger, 1996). We ourselves used a "scenario approach" for designing and evaluating CoMMA, a corporate memory computer platform based on ontologies and agents; the approach was inspired by the scenario approaches proposed in the HCI and CSCW communities, which we consider more user-oriented than the "motivating scenarios" approach. In this paper, we account for our CoMMA experience and its major lesson: the necessity to apply the scenario approach more systematically for assessing the usability and utility of ontology-based tools.
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