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Semantic technologies have become widely adopted in the last years. However, in order to correctly evaluate them we need to ground evaluations in a common quality model. This paper presents some first steps towards the definition of such quality model for semantic technologies. First, some well-known software quality models are described, together with methods for extending them. Afterwards, a quality model for semantic technologies is defined by extending the ISO 9126 quality model.
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Radulovic, F., García-Castro, R. (2011). Towards a Quality Model for Semantic Technologies. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6786. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21934-4_21
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