Thoroughly covering basic introductions and intuitions, technical details, and formal foundations, this text focuses on the established foundations in this area

The Web is growing at an astounding pace surpassing the 8 billion page mark. However, most pages are still designed for human consumption and cannot be processe

The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XM

After years of mostly theoretical research, Semantic Web Technologies are now reaching out into application areas like bioinformatics, eCommerce, eGovernment, o

The Semantic Web represents a vision for how to make the huge amount of information on the Web automatically processable by machines on a large scale. For this