ONTOMAPPER (Ontology Automatic Mapping) ) is a project supported by FCT that started in March/2002 with the duration of 3 years. The correct and coherent knowledge definition, its representation, communication, share and respective methods, give rise to several problems. Also, when adopting and sharing ontologies, the elements to reason about knowledge exist, but other complementary processes are needed in order to entities agreed on the models and its meanings. In this project it is suggested to employ standard technology, like the FIPA and KQML agent communication languages (ACL), emergent standards for representing and structure information like XML/S, RDF/S and DAML+OIL. Concerning ontologies, it is suggested to use recent tools like OILEd and OntoEdit ontology editors, Protégé as a methodology and Ontobroker and FaCT based reasoning engines. Several application domains are expected, like the energy power market, telecommunications market and manufacturing systems.

João Rocha is the project leader and the total budget is € 10000.