Semantic Web: Concepts, Technologies and Applications

by Karin K. Breitman, Walt Truszkowski

The Web is growing at an astounding pace surpassing the 8 billion page mark. However, most pages are still designed for human consumption and cannot be processed by machines. 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 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.

341 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2006

Reviews

[Paul]

Very good introduction the variety of use cases for the semantic technologies. This book does lean more towards the academic arena, and is very heavy on set theory and description logics. Overall a very good read.

[TK Keanini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book to read for an introduction to the Semantic Web technology. Understand that this is about RDF/RDFS/OWL which sit at the heart of the W3C's semantic web standards.

[Marubadi SK]

good

[Shoheb · Rating 4 out of 5]

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