Silva, NunoSantos, JorgeRocha, JoãoRamos, CarlosVale, Zita2026-04-162026-04-162004-07-23Silva, N., Santos, J. & Rocha, J. (2004, July 21-23). Proposal for the combination of ontology assemble and ontology mapping processes. In Ramos, C. & Vale, Z. (Eds) Proceedings of the International Conference of Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support, ICKEDS´04. (pp. 263-269). Porto. Portugal972-8688-24-5http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/32228Ontology mapping is dependent on the matching algorithms, which in turn depends on the semantics of the ontologies. This proposal grounds on two distinct technologies: ontology mapping and ontology assemble. The ontology mapping system is a service-oriented system in which autonomous plug-able services capture and represent the ontology mapping domain’s expertise. Automatic ontology mapping systems perform poorly due to the lack of ontologies’ semantics to reason upon. The assemble process aims to integrate well-founded, proofed knowledge into the domain ontologies, providing extra semantics. Exploiting such semantics indistinct phases of the ontology mapping process, we envisage that such semantics would be very useful in the improvement of the automatic mapping results. Conversely, the ontology mapping experiences would provide feed-back to the assemble process, suggesting its improvement too. The cyclic improvement would run indefinitely. This paper suggests therefore the combination of efforts from both the assemble and mapping processes towards a better semantic relations and assembled ontologies.engKnowledge RepresentationOntologiesKnowledge Managementconference paper