The software engineering field is continuously making an effort to improve the effectiveness of the software development process. This improvement is performed by developing quantitative measures that can be used to enhance the quality of software products and to more accurately describe, better understand and manage the software development life cycle. Even if the ontology engineering field is constantly adopting practices from software engineering, it has not yet reached a state in which metrics are an integral part of ontology engineering processes and support making evidence-based decisions over the process and its outputs. Up to now, ontology metrics are mainly focused on the ontology implementation and do not take into account the development process or other artefacts that can help assessing the quality of the ontology, e.g. its requirements. This work envisions the need for a metrics-driven ontology engineering process and, as a first step, presents a set of metrics for ontology engineering which are obtained from artefacts generated during the ontology development process and from the process itself. The approach is validated by measuring the ontology engineering process carried out in a research project and by showing how the proposed metrics can be used to improve the efficiency of the process by making predictions, such as the effort needed to implement an ontology, or assessments, such as the coverage of the ontology according to its requirements.

软件工程领域正在不断努力以提高软件开发过程的有效性。通过开发可用于提高软件产品质量并更准确地描述，更好地理解和管理软件开发生命周期的定量度量来执行此改进。即使本体工程领域不断采用软件工程中的实践，但尚未达到度量是本体工程过程不可分割的一部分并支持对过程及其输出进行基于证据的决策的状态。到目前为止，本体度量标准主要集中在本体的实现上，并未考虑开发过程或其他有助于评估本体质量的伪像，例如 它的要求。这项工作预见了对度量驱动的本体工程过程的需求，并且第一步，提出了一组本体工程度量，这些度量是从本体开发过程中生成的伪像以及过程本身获得的。通过测量研究项目中进行的本体工程过程并通过显示预测的度量（例如实施本体或评估所需的努力）来展示所提出的指标可用于提高过程效率来验证该方法的有效性。例如根据本体的要求覆盖本体。提出了一组用于本体工程的度量，这些度量是从本体开发过程中生成的伪像以及过程本身获得的。通过测量研究项目中进行的本体工程过程并通过显示预测的度量（例如实施本体或评估所需的努力）来展示所提出的指标可用于提高过程效率，来验证该方法的有效性。例如根据本体的要求覆盖本体。提出了一组用于本体工程的度量，这些度量是从本体开发过程中生成的伪像以及过程本身获得的。通过测量研究项目中进行的本体工程过程并通过显示预测的度量（例如实施本体或评估所需的努力）来展示所提出的指标可用于提高过程效率来验证该方法的有效性。例如根据本体的要求覆盖本体。