Product Description: This volume contains papers from the technical program of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), held from May 30 to June 3, 2010, in Heraklion, Greece. ESWC 2010 presented the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies...read more

Product Description: This volume contains papers from the technical program of the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010), held from May 30 to June 3, 2010, in Heraklion, Greece. ESWC 2010 presented the latest results in research and applications of Semantic Web technologies...read more

Product Description: Ontologien wird inzwischen viel Beachtung geschenkt, denn mittlerweile gibt es Technologien, die ihre Verwendung in Informationssystemen ermöglichen. Beginnend mit den zugrunde liegenden Konzepten und Ideen aus Philosophie und Linguistik, bietet das Buch einen Überblick über Ontologien als Teil der modernen Informationstechnologie...read more

Just like the industrial society of the last century depended on natural resources, today’s society depends on information and its exchange. Staab and Stuckenschmidt structured the selected contributions into four parts: Part I, "Data Storage and Access", prepares the semantic foundation, i.e. data modelling and querying in a flexible and yet scalable manner. These foundations allow for dealing with the organization of information at the individual peers. Part II, "Querying the Network", considers the routing of queries, as well as continuous queries and personalized queries under the conditions of the permanently changing topological structure of a peer-to-peer network. Part III, "Semantic Integration", deals with the mapping of heterogeneous data representations. Finally Part IV, "Methodology and Systems", reports experiences from case studies and sample applications. The overall result is a state-of-the-art description of the potential of Semantic Web and peer-to-peer technologies for information sharing and knowledge management when applied jointly.

Product Description: Details recent research in areas such as ontology design for information integration, metadata generation and management, and representation and management of distributed ontologies. Provides decision support on the use of novel technologies, information about potential problems, and guidelines for the successful application of existing technologies...read more

Product Description: Due to differences in the legal systems and business environments, it is difficult to compare the process of buying and selling land in different European countries. Illustrated by a range of European case studies, this book identifies and discusses the problems of this and similar comparisons...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)