Semantic Web Services

Concepts, Technologies, and Applications
2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-70893-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1670 g

In this volume, Rudi Studer and his team deliver a self-contained compendium about the exciting field of Semantic Web services, starting with the basic standards and technologies and also including advanced applications in eGovernment and eHealth. The contributions provide both the theoretical background and the practical knowledge necessary to understand the essential ideas and to design new cutting-edge applications.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Studer, Rudi

Grimm, Stephan

Abecker, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Web Services
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Social Media, Semantic Web, Web 2.0

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Web Services Technology.- Towards Service-Oriented Architectures.- Architecture and Standardisation of Web Services.- Semantic Web Technology.- Knowledge Representation and Ontologies.- Ontology Development.- Semantic Annotation of Resources in the Semantic Web.- Semantic Web Services.- Goals and Vision.- Description.- Discovery.- Composition.- Mediation.- Tools and Use Cases.- Tools for Semantic Web Services.- Ontology-Based Change Management in an eGovernment Application Scenario.- An eGovernment Case Study.- An eHealth Case Study.

Über Autor(innen)

Rudi Studer is Full Professor in Applied Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His research interests include knowledge management, Semantic Web technologies and applications, ontology management, data and text mining, service-oriented architectures, peer-to-peer systems, and Semantic Grid.

Rudi Studer is also director in the research department Information Process Engineering at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe and one of the presidents of the FZI Research Center as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH that develops semantic applications.

He is engaged in various national and international cooperation projects being funded by e.g. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the European Commission, the German Ministry of Education and Research, and industry. He is president of the Semantic Web Science Association and Editor-in-chief of the journal Web Semantics: Science, Services, and Agents on the World Wide Web.