Axiom vis: An axiom-oriented ontology visualization tool

作者：Zhou Jian; Wang Xin^*; Feng Zhiyong

来源：Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2014, 480: 156-166.

DOI：10.1007/978-3-662-45495-4_14

• Axioms
• Directed acyclic graph (DAG)
• Layout
• Layout algorithms
• Ontology axioms
• Ontology visualizations
• Recursive procedure

With the continuous growth of ontologies in size, the amount of ontology axioms is steadily increasing. To help users understand ontologies with a large number of axioms, we devise a novel ontology visualization tool, called AxiomVis, which defines a mapping from DL axioms to the directed acyclic graph (DAG). We give a recursive procedure to generate the target DAG and then propose a new axiom-aware layout algorithm to display the DAG elements using the characteristics of the expression tree. The distinguishing feature of our tool is that it visualizes ontologies from the axiom viewpoint. This paper demonstrates comparison of different layouts, which exhibits the advantages of our layout on ontology visualization.

• 出版日期2014
• 单位天津大学