Multiple-Mapping-based Ontology Merging Framework Design

The interoperability of ontologies is seriously blocked by the heterogeneity of ontolgies constructed under distributed environment.Ontolgoy merging in the same domain is the most effective method to solve ontology heterogeneity.A Multiple-Mapping-based Ontology Merging Framework is proposed in this paper.The framework with semantic bridge generator and conflict processor which exploits the merit of the current mapping technology can improve the merging efficiency and merge source ontologies into object ontology automatically under the semantic web environment.