Abstract—Ideas creation is an important activity in various
scenarios while research is one of them. A considerable number
of research studies have been made in the past years in
improving tools and methods to support idea generation.
However, creativity of ideas has only been studied in sporadic
attempts, and most of them only share little similarity in
conditions. Moreover, since knowledge is the basis of all kinds of
idea generation, knowledge reuse is very valuable in order to
enhance the generation process and the results’ quality including
creativity. Besides the idea generation methods and techniques
have recently been developed in our earlier work, this study
focuses on the reuse of the knowledge bases for ontology
construction. It aims to enhance the effectiveness and innovation
of generated research ideas. Specifically, this paper presents an
ideas creation framework with knowledge reuse process as a
creative computing. In particular, ontologies merging techniques
with supporting algorithms are proposed and designed.
Furthermore, a case study is presented with reused and newformed
ontologies, in which formal algorithms are used to
calculate and incorporate the knowledge reuse. The main
contribution of this paper is a set of rules to support knowledge
reuse for the ontology construction in the ideas creation
framework.