Abstract
There have been many researches about construction and application of ontology in reality, notably the usage of ontology to support requirements engineering. The effect of ontology-based requirements engineering depends on quality of ontology. With the increasing size of ontology, it is difficult to verify the correctness of information stored in ontology. This paper will propose a method of using rules for verification the correctness of requirements ontology. We provide a rule description language to specify properties that requirements ontology should satisfy. Then, by checking whether the rules are consistent with requirements ontology, we verify the correctness of the ontology. We have developed a verification tool to support the method and evaluated the tool through experiments.
