โ Scribed by Stefan Fischer, Christian Werner (auth.), Rudi Studer, Stephan Grimm, Andreas Abecker (eds.)
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In just a few years, service-oriented architectures (SOA) and Web services not only gained considerable interest in computer science research, they were also taken up with unanimity by all major international players in the IT industry. However, and in spite of all existing standards, in most SOA applications much human intervention is still required, for example to interpret the semantics of informal descriptions or to harmonize incompatible data schemata.
Semantic Web services combine Web services communication technology with the intelligent processing of ontology-based metadata to achieve highly integrated enterprise application integration scenarios, for service look-up, schema matching, or protocol negotiation, for example. Rudi Studer and his team deliver a self-contained compendium about this exciting field, starting with the basic standards and technologies and also including advanced applications in eGovernment and eHealth. The contributions provide both the theoretical background and the practical knowledge necessary to understand the essential ideas and to design new cutting-edge applications. They address computer science students as well as researchers in academia and industry who need a concise introduction and state-of-the-art survey of current research, and the book can easily be used as the basis of a specialized course on Web services or Semantic Web applications. In addition, IT professionals will be able to assess the potential and possible benefits of this new technology.
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Towards Service-Oriented Architectures....Pages 15-24
Architecture and Standardisation of Web Services....Pages 25-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Knowledge Representation and Ontologies....Pages 51-105
Ontology Development....Pages 107-134
Semantic Annotation of Resources in the Semantic Web....Pages 135-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Goals and Vision....Pages 159-178
Description....Pages 179-209
Discovery....Pages 211-244
Composition....Pages 245-286
Mediation....Pages 287-308
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Tools for Semantic Web Services....Pages 311-337
Ontology-Based Change Management in an eGovernment Application Scenario....Pages 339-364
An eGovernment Case Study....Pages 365-379
An eHealth Case Study....Pages 385-402
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Business Information Systems; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Electronic Commerce/e-business; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Computer Communication Networks
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