Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
1st Edition
Published on 6. August 2009
Book
Hardback
456 pages
978-1-4200-9050-5 (ISBN)
Description
With more substantial funding from research organizations and industry, numerous large-scale applications, and recently developed technologies, the Semantic Web is quickly emerging as a well-recognized and important area of computer science. While Semantic Web technologies are still rapidly evolving, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies focuses on the established foundations in this area that have become relatively stable over time. It thoroughly covers basic introductions and intuitions, technical details, and formal foundations.
The book concentrates on Semantic Web technologies standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium: RDF and SPARQL enable data exchange and querying, RDFS and OWL provide expressive ontology modeling, and RIF supports rule-based modeling. The text also describes methods for specifying, querying, and reasoning with ontological information. In addition, it explores topics that are clearly beyond foundations, such as tools, applications, and engineering aspects.
Written by highly respected researchers with a deep understanding of the material, this text centers on the formal specifications of the subject and supplies many pointers that are useful for employing Semantic Web technologies in practice.
The book has an accompanying website with supplemental information.
The book concentrates on Semantic Web technologies standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium: RDF and SPARQL enable data exchange and querying, RDFS and OWL provide expressive ontology modeling, and RIF supports rule-based modeling. The text also describes methods for specifying, querying, and reasoning with ontological information. In addition, it explores topics that are clearly beyond foundations, such as tools, applications, and engineering aspects.
Written by highly respected researchers with a deep understanding of the material, this text centers on the formal specifications of the subject and supplies many pointers that are useful for employing Semantic Web technologies in practice.
The book has an accompanying website with supplemental information.
Reviews / Votes
A 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title... The nine chapters of the book guide the reader through the major foundational languages for the semantic Web and highlight the formal semantics. ... the book has very interesting supporting material and exercises, is oriented to W3C standards, and provides the necessary foundations for the semantic Web. It will be easy to follow by the computer scientist who already has a basic background on semantic Web issues; it will also be helpful for both self-study and teaching purposes. I recommend this book primarily as a complementary textbook for a graduate or undergraduate course in a computer science or a Web science academic program.
-Computing Reviews, February 2010
This book is unique in several respects. It contains an in-depth treatment of all the major foundational languages for the Semantic Web and provides a full treatment of the underlying formal semantics, which is central to the Semantic Web effort. It is also the very first textbook that addresses the forthcoming W3C recommended standards OWL 2 and RIF. Furthermore, the covered topics and underlying concepts are easily accessible for the reader due to a clear separation of syntax and semantics ... I am confident this book will be well received and play an important role in training a larger number of students who will seek to become proficient in this growing discipline.
-From the Foreword, Amit Sheth, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Undergraduate
Product notice
Paper over boards
Illustrations
80 s/w Abbildungen, 23 s/w Tabellen
23 Tables, black and white; 80 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
845 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4200-9050-5 (9781420090505)
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Additional editions
Pascal Hitzler | Markus Krotzsch | Sebastian Rudolph
Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
E-Book
08/2009
1st Edition
Chapman & Hall/CRC
€125.99
Available for download
Pascal Hitzler | Markus Krotzsch | Sebastian Rudolph
Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies
E-Book
08/2009
Chapman and Hall
€125.99
Available for download
Persons
Pascal Hitzler works in the Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, USA.
Markus Kroetzsch and Sebastian Rudolph work in the institute AIFB at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
Markus Kroetzsch and Sebastian Rudolph work in the institute AIFB at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.
Content
Resource Description Language (RDF). Web Ontology Language (OWL). Rules and Queries. Beyond Foundations. Appendices. References. Index.