Semantic Web: Concepts, Technologies and Applications - Concepts, Technologies and Applications

Although the Web is growing at an astounding pace, surpassing the 8 billion page mark, most pages are still designed for human consumption and cannot be processed by machines. Computers are used to display the information, but human intervention is still required to interpret the results. The Semantic Web unleashes a revolution of new possibilities in which content is given formal, machine processable semantics.
This book provides a well-paced introduction to the Semantic Web. It covers a wide range of topics, from new trends (ontologies, rules) to existing technologies (Web Services and software agents) to more formal aspects (logic and inference). It includes: real-world (and complete) examples of the application of Semantic Web concepts; how the technology presented and discussed throughout the book can be extended to other application areas, i.e. Geographic Information Sciences, Bioinformatics and Fine Arts.

List of contents

The Future of the Internet.- Concepts.- Ontology in Computer Science.- Knowledge Representation in Description Logic.- RDF and RDF Schema.- OWL.- Rule Languages.- Semantic Web Services.- Technologies.- Methods for Ontology Development.- Ontology Sources.- Semantic Web Software Tools.- Applications.- Software Agents.- Semantic Desktop.- Ontology Applications in Art.- Geospatial Semantic Web.

Summary

Although the Web is growing at an astounding pace, surpassing the 8 billion page mark, most pages are still designed for human consumption and cannot be processed by machines. Computers are used to display the information, but human intervention is still required to interpret the results. The Semantic Web unleashes a revolution of new possibilities in which content is given formal, machine processable semantics.
This book provides a well-paced introduction to the Semantic Web. It covers a wide range of topics, from new trends (ontologies, rules) to existing technologies (Web Services and software agents) to more formal aspects (logic and inference). It includes: real-world (and complete) examples of the application of Semantic Web concepts; how the technology presented and discussed throughout the book can be extended to other application areas, i.e. Geographic Information Sciences, Bioinformatics and Fine Arts.

Product details

• Authors: Kari Breitman, Karin Breitman, Marco A. Casanova, Marco Antoni Casanova, Marco Antonio Casanova, Truszkowsk, Walt Truszkowski, Walter Truszkowski
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9781846285813
• ISBN: 978-1-84628-581-3
• No. of pages: 327
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 22 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 684 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 327 p.
• Series: NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering; NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; B, Software Engineering, computer science, Information Retrieval, Computer Science, general, Database Management, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computer and Information Systems Applications, database programming, Application software, Computers, Information technology: general issues, Internet searching, Popular Computer Science, Databases, Models and Principles, Models of Computation