Measuring inconsistency ontological changes based on communities in ontology

Inconsistency measure is an inherent activity in the ontology evolution. In the literature ontology evolution is defined as the timely adaptation of an ontology to changes to the business requirements in the knowledge domain, or new trends on ontology instances or ontology usage. A change operation in one ontology could generate inconsistencies. In this paper, we propose an inconsistency measure of an ontological change operation based on the probability of connection between entities inside and across different communities in the ontology. The BigCLAM algorithm is used in order to identify links between entities through communities. Inconsistencies measures defined in this paper are specifically dedicated to ontology.