Model transformation and semantic mapping are enabling technologies for new, advanced solutions to address enterprise software interoperability. Such technlogies are nowdays tackled by two different disciplines: software architectures, with the MDA approach, and semantic interoperability, with an ontology-based approach. This paper briefly compares the model-based (MB) and the ontology-based (OB)
... [Show full abstract] approaches and draws some preliminary conclusions on similarities and differences, in the perspective of combining these approaches in a value-adding way.