Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies

Krotzsch, Markus, Hitzler, Pascal, Rudolph, Sebastian

ISBN 10: 142009050X / ISBN 13: 9781420090505

Published by CRC Press LLC, 2009

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Synopsis:

With more substantial funding from research organizations and industry, numerous large-scale applications, and recently developed technologies, the Semantic Web is quickly emerging as a well-recognized and important area of computer science. While Semantic Web technologies are still rapidly evolving, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies focuses on the established foundations in this area that have become relatively stable over time. It thoroughly covers basic introductions and intuitions, technical details, and formal foundations.

The book concentrates on Semantic Web technologies standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium: RDF and SPARQL enable data exchange and querying, RDFS and OWL provide expressive ontology modeling, and RIF supports rule-based modeling. The text also describes methods for specifying, querying, and reasoning with ontological information. In addition, it explores topics that are clearly beyond foundations, such as tools, applications, and engineering aspects.

Written by highly respected researchers with a deep understanding of the material, this text centers on the formal specifications of the subject and supplies many pointers that are useful for employing Semantic Web technologies in practice.

The book has an accompanying website with supplemental information.

About the Author: Pascal Hitzler works in the Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, USA.
Sebastian Rudolph works in the institute AIFB at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
Markus Krötzsch works in the Computing Laboratory of the University of Oxford, England, UK.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
Publisher: CRC Press LLC
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition.