... into theSemantic Web? What’s after Web Services? What Do the Skeptics Say about theSemantic Web? Why the Skeptics Are Wrong! Summary The Business Case for theSemanticWeb 17 What Is theSemantic ... afforded by SemanticWeb technologies How Does XML Fit into theSemantic Web? XML is the syntactic foundation layer oftheSemanticWeb All other technologies providing features for theSemanticWeb ... understanding the practical use of a SemanticWeb that lies beneath the covers of our traditional Web In the previous chapter, we discussed the “what” oftheSemanticWeb This chapter examines the “why,”...
... understanding the practical use of a SemanticWeb that lies beneath the covers of our traditional Web In the previous chapter, we discussed the “what” oftheSemanticWeb This chapter examines the “why,” ... that they can trust Thus, verifying the source of statements is a key part oftheSemanticWeb Person A siblingOf Person B childOf uncleOf Person C Figure 1.7 Using rules to infer the uncleOf relation ... on Currently, there is an explosion of technologies that will help us reach the vision oftheSemanticWeb Helping theSemanticWeb s promise is our industry’s current focus on Web services Organizations...
... over the next 10 years with the advent oftheSemanticWeb Lastly, we turned a critical eye on the current state of XML meta data and why it is not enough to fulfill the goals oftheSemanticWeb ... many ofthe current IT applications In conclusion, XML is a strong foundation for theSemanticWeb Its next significant stage of development is the advent ofWeb services, discussed in the next ... definition, but nonetheless, we hear marketing briefs telling us this every day The generality ofthe definition and mischaracterization ofWeb to mean World Wide Web instead ofWeb technologies”...
... example, theWeb services were developed internally, so the client application may know all oftheWeb service-specific calls In another situation, however, the technologies ofWeb services provide the ... with Web services technologies Vendors such as Sun, IBM, and The Mind Electric will be implementing gridenabled Web services as products A SemanticWebofWeb Services TheSemanticWeb and Web ... an IsaViz graph ofthe three RDF statements While the triple is the centerpiece of RDF, other elements of RDF offer additional facilities in composing these knowledge graphs The other RDF facilities...
... top of RDF This layered approach to creating theSemanticWeb has been presented by the W3C and Tim Berners-Lee as theSemanticWeb Stack,” as displayed in Figure 5.8 The base ofthe stack is the ... levels of application-to-application trust This webof trust” forms the third and final web in Tim Berners-Lee’s three-part vision (collaborative web, Semantic Web, webof trust) Supporting this web ... will drive the adoption of RDF and provide a strong foundation layer for theSemanticWeb Summary In this chapter, we learned about the foundation layer oftheSemanticWeb called the Resource...
... from the SVG Recommendation ofthe W3C, creates an image of a red ellipse, shown in Figure 6.7 When a user clicks on the ellipse, the user is taken to the W3C Web site Of course, this is one ofthe ... up the definition of taxonomy in the dictionary, the definition will read something like the following (from Merriam-Webster OnLine: http:// www.m-w.com/): The study ofthe general principles of ... 7.4, with the Segment node being the root (of the subtree of Live Plant and Animal Segment 10) and the Family nodes being the first branch level (beneath which would be the Class and then the Commodity...
... if the antecedent ofthe production rule is true, then the actions ofthe consequent are executed, thereby changing the state ofthe environment, and so possibly enabling the conditions of other ... Royal (indicated by the URI that is the value of one topicRef ) and Virginia (indicated by the URI that is the value ofthe other topicRef) The specification ofthe semantics of located-in is not ... machine-interpretable we mean that the semantics ofthe model is semantically interpretable by the machine; in other words, the computer and its software can interpret the semantics ofthe model directly—without...
... that no Father is his own Father (nonreflexive) If X is the Father _of Y, Y is not the Father _of X (antisymmetric), though of course if X is a Father and the Father _of Y, Y can be a Father There will ... Typically, the model lies in the mind ofthe human We as humans “understand” the semantics, which means we symbolically represent in some fashion the world, the objects ofthe world, and the relationships ... formal/natural language worlds, the first type of knowledge is the intension and the second is the extension In the database world, a schema is the intensional database, whereas the tuples ofthe database...
... understand is that all theSemanticWeb languages take advantage ofthe other languages beneath them in the so-called layer cake or stack diagram oftheSemanticWeb All the languages use XML ... property is specified Think ofthe relation/property hasFather(Child, Father): Child is the domain ofthe property hasFather, Father is the range ofthe property hasFather This simply means that ... instance/individual in the domain must be a member ofthe Child class; any instance in the range must be a member ofthe Father class If there were a defined inverse property fatherOf(Father, Child), then the domain...
... 114–115 SemanticWeb defined, 1–2 future of, 24–25 importance of, 4–6 skepticism of, 12–14 Web services and, 7, 83–84 Web site for, XML and, 6–7 SemanticWeb Enabled Web Services (SWWS), 84 semantics ... Swartz, A 2002 TheSemanticWeb in Breadth.” Available at http:// logicerror.com/semanticWeb-long Singh, M P 2002 The Pragmatic Web: Preliminary Thoughts.” In Proceedings ofthe Database and ... Trastour, Bartolini, Gonzales-Castillo “A SemanticWeb Approach to Service Description of Matchmaking of Service.” In Proceedings ofthe International SemanticWeb Working Symposium (SWWS), Stanford,...
... The rest ofthe thesis is organized as follows Chapter reviews theSemanticWeb and the state -of -the- art SemanticWeb technologies, which include ontology, SemanticWeb Portals and SemanticWeb ... chapter, we review the development and the state -of -the- art of technologies for theSemanticWeb First, we discuss the traditional World Wide Web, which is the precursor oftheSemantic Web, and markup ... Finally, we discuss SemanticWeb Portals for SemanticWeb applications, and Web Services for the delivery of services on theSemanticWeb 2.1 Markup Languages TheWorld Wide Web, proposed by Tim...
... Bank’s use ofSemanticWeb technologies offers direct, immediate benefits to Web users in their everyday’s use ofthe existing Web while incurring little cost on them By extending the current web browser ... existing Web information without ever leaving their familiar web browser Through the use of Piggy Bank, as they consume Web information, they automatically produce SemanticWeb information Through Semantic ... Web Consumption When the number ofweb sites started to accumulate, directories ofweb sites (e.g., Yahoo! [32]) were compiled to give an overview oftheWeb When the number of sites continued...
... service composition oftheSemanticWeb In this book the authors achieve a substantial step forward in the area of automatic service composition on theSemanticWeb Clearly, the goal of automation ... whether they can interact with each other, and then compose them Second, theWeb service space is highly dynamic New services are expected to avail themselves on theWeb This requires the ability ... computing and SemanticWebThe remainder of this book is organized as follows In Chapter 2, we present an in-depth study of interaction technologies on the pre SemanticWeb and SemanticWeb eras We...
... forms is also one ofthe aims oftheSemanticWeb 26 TheSemanticWeb Figure 1.5 The traditional distinction between ‘‘document’’ and ‘‘message’’ is illustrated in the context ofthe client-server ... and on the main issues that lead to the formulation oftheSemanticWeb A clear explanation of relevant terms and concepts prepare the reader for the more technical material in the rest ofthe book ... deficiency in theWeb is part of what prompted the development of other clients in other protocols, to implement functionality that might otherwise have been a natural part ofthe HTTP WebThe pervasive...
... of powering theSemanticWebThe power ofthesemantic web, therefore, comes from the coupling ofthe knowledge technologies developed by the AI world with the power grid being developed by the ... DAML1OIL Towards theSemanticWeb 12 Figure 2.1 2.2 TheSemanticWeb Pyramid of Languages One ofthe main architectural premises oftheSemanticWeb is a stack of languages, often drawn in a ... is now becoming clear that the most important work making the transition from the AI labs to the standards oftheWorld Wide Web is in the area ofweb ontologies In the mid to late 1990s, several...
... one ofthe most fundamental aspects oftheSemantic Web: the connection between two worlds — thesemanticworld and theWebworld — has to be built in order to turn the vision oftheSemanticWeb ... in the vision oftheSemanticWeb Let us examine some examples of metadata from theWebworld Clearly, theWeb is made up of many Web documents Based on its definition, the metadata of a given Web ... 15.1.1 The Concept oftheSemanticWeb 321 15.1.2 The Full Technical Foundation for theSemanticWeb 322 15.1.3 Real -World Examples and Applications oftheSemanticWeb 322 15.1.4 From the...
... Sweb (Semantic Web, SW) is a common abbreviation used to qualify technologies associated with theSemanticWeb effort SWS (Semantic Web Service) is to Web Service what theSemanticWeb is to the ... Issues of ownership compensation on theWeb remain unresolved In the early days ofthe Web, considerable collaboration was the rule New requirements and usage patterns change the nature oftheWeb ... Sons, Ltd 340 TheSemanticWeb Overview These titles provide an overview, at least, within one or more core sweb technology areas Spinning theSemantic Web: Bringing theWorld Wide Web to Its Full...
... things about how theWeb works It is a measure ofthe success ofWeb technology that the average user does not need to know much of anything technical to surf theWeb Most ofthe technical detail ... and on the main issues that lead to the formulation oftheSemanticWeb A clear explanation of relevant terms and concepts prepare the reader for the more technical material in the rest ofthe book ... deficiency in theWeb is part of what prompted the development of other clients in other protocols, to implement functionality that might otherwise have been a natural part ofthe HTTP WebThe pervasive...
... precisely theWeb itself – theSemanticWeb is in this view Defining theSemanticWeb 35 just another expression of new innate functionality ofthe same magnitude The capabilities ofthe whole are therefore ... what the ‘killer application’ oftheSemanticWeb would be, the clued-in proponents reply: TheSemanticWeb itself! They justify this reply by noting that the killer application ofthe current Web ... in the discussions oftheSemanticWeb From Model to Reality starts with a summary ofthe conceptual models for theSemantic Web, before delving further into detailed terms TheSemantic Web...