Reasoning Web Semantic Technologies For The Web Of Data

Download or read book Reasoning Web. Semantic Technologies for the Web of Data written by Axel Polleres and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantic Web aims at enriching the existing Web with meta-data and processing methods so as to provide web-based systems with advanced capabilities, in particular with context awareness and decision support. The objective of this book is to provide a coherent introduction to semantic web methods and research issues with a particular emphasis on reasoning. The 7th reasoning web Summer School, held in August 2011, focused on the central topic of applications of reasoning for the emerging “Web of Data”. The 12 chapters in the present book provide excellent educational material as well as a number of references for further reading. The book not only addresses students working in the area, but also those seeking an entry point to various topics related to reasoning over Web data.