[...]... economic and social systems, and producing Thinking on the Web: Berners-Lee, G¨ del, and Turing, by H Peter Alesso and Craig F Smith o Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc 3 4 EMPOWERING THE INFORMATION AGE the demand for intelligent features on the Web Next are presented the limitations of today’s Web and the need for intelligent automatic capabilities through the development of the Semantic Web. .. Postgraduate School Monterey, California PREFACE Tim Berners-Lee, Kurt G¨ del, and Alan Turing are the pivotal pioneers who have o opened the door to the Information Revolution Through their contributions, we are witnessing the remarkable refashioning of the Information Age, which began with the introduction of the computer in the 1950s, into the Information Revolution as the World Wide Web evolves into... is the ultimate goal The challenge is finding the best layering of ontology, logic, and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web that will offer solutions to the most useful Web applications These include accomplishing important tasks automatically on the Web, such as search, query, and information acquisition for collaborative Web applications and services In Chapter 10, the Semantic Web applications... human consumption The next generation Web, however, may need to extend these capabilities to automatic machine processing As the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee is also the originator of the proposed next generation Web architecture: the Semantic Web Currently, his World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) team works to develop, extend, and standardize the Web s markup languages and tools The objective... approaching AI or thinking on the Web, the next generation Web architecture must be able to support the basic elements of logic and automation In Part II, we present Web Ontology and Logic: The solution of the W3C to deliver Semantic Web architecture built upon layers of open markup languages The Semantic Web will support machine-processing capabilities that will automate Web applications and services... oriented, the concept of smart applications and services on the Web is still in its infancy, and today we could not refer to the Web as intelligent In this book, however, we will examine how the Web may be pushing the boundaries of intelligence and Turing s Test We will consider how the Semantic Web s goal of machine processing using powerful reasoning with reasonable computational complexity relates to the. .. able to restrict their output to provably correct solutions, they suffer from computation complexity limitations as they go through the mass of connected data across the Web The issue of what is solvable on the Web is directly related to reaching a balance of powerful expressive reasoning with reasonable computational complexity The objective of the Semantic Web is therefore to provide the best framework... through a Web architecture utilizing layers of open markup languages This chapter begins by highlighting what is meant by the concepts of thinking and “intelligent applications” on the Web Then, the development of the Information Age and the emergence of the Web as an empowering force for global change is presented We discuss the forces behind the Information Revolution that are transforming the world’s... xxiii THE ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK This book is organized into two parts: Part I, “What is Web Intelligence” and Part II, Web Ontology and Logic.” We begin Part I (What is Web Intelligence) with a presentation of the development of the Information Revolution and how the Web contributes to human productivity (Chapter 1) Then in Chapters 2–4, we weave the contributions of G¨ del (what is decidable?), Turing. .. auction, negotiate, and draft contracts automatically Achieving powerful reasoning with reasonable complexity is the ultimate goal for the Semantic Web because it will lead to machine processing and services automation on a global scale The challenge is finding the best layering of ontology, logic, and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web that will offer solutions to the most useful Web information . alt="" THINKING ON THE WEB Berners-Lee, G ¨ odel, and Turing H. PETER ALESSO and CRAIG F. SMITH A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION THINKING ON THE WEB THINKING ON THE WEB Berners-Lee,. G ¨ odel, and Alan Turing are the pivotal pioneers who have opened the door to the Information Revolution. Through their contributions, we are witnessing the remarkable refashioning of the Information. IS WEB INTELLIGENCE? 1 1 Empowering the Information Age 3 Overview 3 Thinking and Intelligent Web Applications 4 The Information Age 6 The World Wide Web 11 Limitations of Today’s Web 13 The