A Power Consumption Benchmark Framework for Ontology Reasoning on Android Devices

Ontology reasoning, in particular query answering with Description Logics-based ontologies, is a power-consuming task, especially in mobile settings where such a resource is limited and shared by other processes. To be able to determine whether a reasoning task will be consuming significant amount of power, a benchmark framework will be needed for ontology designers and reasoner developers. In this paper, we report our work on a power consumption benchmark framework that can be used to evaluate and compare the level of battery consumption of different Description Logics reasoners on Android devices. To calculate the power consumption of the reasoners, we measured the current flow and the voltage of the integrated battery. We focus on Android-based devices and evaluate the framework using 3 popular DL reasoners.