The Semantic Web, that adds a conceptual layer of machine-understand able metadata to the existing content, will make the content available for processing by intelligent software allowing automatic resource integration and providing interoperability between heterogeneous systems. The Semantic Web is now the most important influence on the development of the Web. Next generation of intelligent applications will be capable to make use of such metadata to perform resource discovery and integration based on its seman tics. Semantic Web, aims at developing a global environment on top of Web with interoperable heterogeneous applications, agents, web services, data repositories, humans, and so on. On the technology side, Web-oriented lan guages and technologies are being developed (e.g. RDF, OWL, OWL-S, WSMO, etc.), and the success of the Semantic Web will depend on a wide spread industrial adoption of these technologies. Trend within worldwide activities related to Semantic Web definitely shows that the technology has emerging growth of interest both academic and industry during a relatively small time interval.
Edited by:
Vagan Terziyan, Vagan Terziyan Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Country of Publication: United States Edition: 2005 ed. Volume: 188 Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1.450kg ISBN:9780387285689 ISBN 10: 0387285687 Series:IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Pages: 322 Publication Date:25 August 2005 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active