Semantic Web Services

Semantic Web services combine Web services communication technology with the intelligent processing of ontology-based metadata to achieve highly integrated enterprise application integration scenarios. In this book, Rudi Studer and his team deliver a self-contained compendium about this exciting field, starting with the basic standards and technologies and also including advanced applications in eGovernment and eHealth. The contributions provide both the theoretical background and the practical knowledge necessary to understand the essential ideas and to design new cutting-edge applications. They address computer science students as well as researchers in academia and industry who need a concise introduction and state-of-the-art survey of current research, and the book can easily be used as the basis of a specialized course on Web services or Semantic Web applications. In addition, IT professionals will be able to assess the potential and possible benefits of this new technology.

Complete and self-contained coverage of Semantic Web Services Balance between theoretical foundations and practice-oriented topics Fair and comprehensive survey, not committed to a specific standard or approach Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Rudi Studer is Full Professor in Applied Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His research interests include knowledge management, Semantic Web technologies and applications, ontology management, data and text mining, service-oriented architectures, peer-to-peer systems, and Semantic Grid.

Rudi Studer is also director in the research department Information Process Engineering at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe and one of the presidents of the FZI Research Center as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH that develops semantic applications.

He is engaged in various national and international cooperation projects being funded by e.g. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the European Commission, the German Ministry of Education and Research, and industry. He is president of the Semantic Web Science Association and Editor-in-chief of the journal Web Semantics: Science, Services, and Agents on the World Wide Web.

Inhalt
Web Services Technology.- Towards Service-Oriented Architectures.- Architecture and Standardisation of Web Services.- Semantic Web Technology.- Knowledge Representation and Ontologies.- Ontology Development.- Semantic Annotation of Resources in the Semantic Web.- Semantic Web Services.- Goals and Vision.- Description.- Discovery.- Composition.- Mediation.- Tools and Use Cases.- Tools for Semantic Web Services.- Ontology-Based Change Management in an eGovernment Application Scenario.- An eGovernment Case Study.- An eHealth Case Study.