Canadian Semantic Web (Semantic Web and Beyond)

Semantics, Web services, and Web processes promise better re-use, universal interoperability and integration. Semantics has been recognized as the primary tool to address the challenges of a broad spectrum of heterogeneity and for improving automation through machine understandable descriptions.Semantic Web Services, Processes and Applications brings contributions from researchers who study, explore and understand the semantic enabling of all phases of semantic Web processes. This encompasses design, annotation, discovery, choreography and composition. Also this book presents fundamental capabilities and techniques associated with ontological modeling or services, annotation, matching and mapping, and reasoning. This is complemented by discussion of applications in e-Government and bioinformatics.Special bulk rates are available for course adoption through Publishing Editor. Since its creation a number of years ago, the World Wide Web has revolutionized the way entertainment, research and business are conducted in modern society. However, most of the current Web is conceived for human understanding whereas software applications or agents have no clue of the meaning of its content. The semantic Web, as an extension of the current Web and a vision, aims to bring structure for computer programs to "understand" and process. According to Tim Berners-Lee, in this vision, humans and machines will be able to work, reason and solve complex tasks in cooperation. Canadian Semantic Web contains the proceedings of the Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS) 2006, the first major event in Canada on the theme of semantic Web. This event is the initiative of the Canadian Semantic Web Interest Group (SWIG) which gathers researchers supported by the Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence(CSCSI). This text covers a variety of well known topics of interest to practitioners in industry and research scientists. The range of topics includes languages, tools and methodologies for the semantic Web, semantic Web-based ontology management and engineering, semantic Web services, practical applications of the semantic Web techniques, artificial intelligence methods and tools for the semantic Web, software agents on the semantic Web, visualization and modeling of the semantic Web. The goal of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art review of the research as well as to introduce topics of interest to experts. Mamadou Tadiou Koné is an Assistant Professor in computer science at Université Laval, Québec, Canada. Daniel Lemire is Professor at Télé-université, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Canada front-matter.pdf......Page 1 001.pdf......Page 29 003-033.pdf......Page 30 035-061.pdf......Page 61 063-087.pdf......Page 88 089-105.pdf......Page 113 107-136.pdf......Page 130 137.pdf......Page 160 138-159.pdf......Page 161 161-193.pdf......Page 182 195-225.pdf......Page 215 227-245.pdf......Page 246 247.pdf......Page 265 249-282.pdf......Page 266 283-303.pdf......Page 300 305-322.pdf......Page 321 323-350.pdf......Page 339 351-380.pdf......Page 367 back-matter.pdf......Page 397 'Canadian Semantic Web is an edited volume based on the first Canadian Web Working Symposium, June 2006, in Quebec, Canada. It is the first edited volume based on this subject. This volume includes, but is not limited to, the following popular topics: "Trust, Privacy, Security on the Semantic Web", "Semantic Grid and Semantic Grid Services" and "Semantic Web Mining". '--Provided by publisher

Canadian Semantic Web is an edited volume based on the first Canadian Web Working Symposium, June 2006, in Quebec, Canada. This volume includes but is not limited to the following popular topics: Trust, Privacy, Security on the Semantic Web, Semantic Grid and Semantic Grid Services and Semantic Web Mining.