Reasoning Web: Third International Summer School 2007, Dresden, Germany, September 3-7, 2007, Tutorial Lectures

François Bry, Norbert Eisinger, Thomas Eiter, Tim Furche, Georg Gottlob, Clemens Ley (auth.), Grigoris Antoniou, Uwe Aßmann, Cristina Baroglio, Stefan Decker, Nicola Henze, Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Robert Tolksdorf (eds.)3540746137, 9783540746133

This book contains a collection of thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the Second International Summer School on the Reasoning Web in Dresden, Germany, September 2007. It provides a coherent introduction to Semantic Web methods and research issues with a particular focus on reasoning.

The nine tutorial papers presented provide competent coverage of methods and research issues of the Semantic Web, ontology languages and their relation to description logics, Web query languages, XML, RDF and Topics Maps, evolution and reactivity, personalization in the Semantic Web, rule modeling with UML, techniques in Web information extraction, employing ontologies to ease construction of software applications, and type checking for Web rule and query languages.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Foundations of Rule-Based Query Answering….Pages 1-153
Reasoning in Description Logics: Basics, Extensions, and Relatives….Pages 154-182
Reactive Rules on the Web….Pages 183-239
Rule-Based Policy Representation and Reasoning for the Semantic Web….Pages 240-268
Rule Interchange on the Web….Pages 269-309
Reasoning in Semantic Wikis….Pages 310-329
Semantic Wiki Representations for Building an Enterprise Knowledge Base….Pages 330-333
Semantic Descriptions in an Enterprise Search Solution….Pages 334-337
Semantic Web Service Discovery and Selection in B2B Integration Scenarios….Pages 338-343
Back Matter….Pages –