Semantic Management of Middleware

This new reference provides a detailed road map on how semantics and Semantic Web technologies can play a significant role in creating a middleware system and in managing heterogeneous software systems. The book builds a rigorous approach towards giving the declarative descriptions of components and services a well-defined meaning by specifying ontological foundations and by showing how such foundations may be realized in practical, up-and-running systems. An introduction to the basics of middleware technology is provided, along with a discussion of ontologies, to help readers who are not familiar with the area to get the necessary background information.

Introduces the usage of semantic technologies Provides an introduction to the basics of middleware technology and a discussion of ontologies, to help readers who are not familiar with the area Includes service oriented architectures (SOA) which are considered the basis of next generation distributed software systems Preface by Amit P. Sheth, University of Georgia, USA Foreword by Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Fundamentals.- Middleware.- Ontologies.- Towards Semantic Management.- Design of a Management Ontology.- Analysis of Existing Ontologies.- The Appropriate Foundational Ontology.- An Ontological Formalization of Software Components and Web Services.- Realization of Semantic Management.- Design of an Ontology-Based Application Server.- Implementation.- Applying the Management Ontology.- Finale.- Related Work.- Conclusion & Outlook.