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.
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From the reviews:
"Middleware can largely ease the heterogeneity and increasing complexity of the distributed information systems. . Realising this central issue, this book deals with the semantic aspect of middleware . . The uniqueness of the book is the presentation of taxonomies of various ontologies . . The book has addressed the important issues on weaving semantic web. This reader is useful to students, researchers and teachers to understand ontologies for middleware and to developers and administrators who like to apply semantics to middleware." (Pit. Pichappan, Journal of Digital Information Management, Vol. 4 (2), June, 2006)
