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Competency Questions
TS edited this page Apr 14, 2018
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Competency questions (Gruninger and Fox 1995) are questions that a knowledge base based on an ontology should be able to answer. Such questions serve as requirements for the ontology: Does the ontology contain enough information to answer these types of questions? Do the answers require a particular level of detail or representation of a particular area?
Conversely, given an entity of an ontology, it can be asked if the representation of the entity sufficient to meet the intent.
Entity Name: isPartOf
Intent: To represent entities and their parts
Epistemological Competency Questions:
- What is this entity part of?
- What are the parts of this entity?
Ontological Competency Questions:
- What does it mean to be a part of something?
- Can something be part of itself?
- Can something have only one (proper) part?
- Are two entities the same if they have the same parts?
- Does parthood imply contact?
- What’s the difference between parthood and spatial inclusion?
- What’s the difference between parts and components? How are they related?
Intent - As part of a trade space analysis find existing systems/components that meet requirements.