Reasoning Web: First International Summer School 2005, Msida, Malta, July 25-29, 2005, Revised Lectures / Edition 1

by Norbert Eisinger, Jan Maluszynski

Overview

This volume contains the tutorial papers of the Summer School “Reasoning Web,” July 25– 29, 2005 (http: //reasoning web. org). TheSchoolwashostedbythe University of Malta and was organized by the Network of Excellence REWERSE “Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics” (http://rewerse. net), funded by the EU Commission and by the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science within the 6th Framework Programme under the project ref- ence number 506779. The objective of the school was to provide an introduction into methods and issues of the Semantic Web, a major endeavor in current Web research, where the World Wide Web Consortium W3C plays an important role. The main idea of the Semantic Web is to enrich Web data with meta-data carrying a “meaning” of the data and allowing Web-based systems to reason about data (and meta-data). The meta-data used in Semantic Web applications is usually linked to a conceptualization of the application domain shared by different applications. Such a conceptualization is called an ontology and specifics classes of objects and relations between them. Ontologies are defined by ontology languages, based on logic and supporting formal reasoning. Just as the current Web is inherently heterogeneous in data formats and data semantics, the Semantic Web will be inherently heterogeneous in its reasoning forms. - deed, any single form of reasoning turns out to be insufficient in the Semantic Web.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540278283
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	09/13/2005
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #3564
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

to Semantic Web Ontology Languages.- Rules and Ontologies in F-Logic.- Web and Semantic Web Query Languages: A Survey.- Evolution and Reactivity for the Web.- Personalization for the Semantic Web.- Attempto Controlled English: A Knowledge Representation Language Readable by Humans and Machines.- Rule Modeling and Markup.- Information Extraction for the Semantic Web.- Reuse in Semantic Applications.- Towards Types for Web Rule Languages.