Books

The Social Semantic Web

John Breslin, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker.
Springer, 2009

The Social Web (including services such as MySpace, Flickr, last.fm, and WordPress) has captured the attention of millions of users as well as billions of dollars in investment and acquisition. Social websites, evolving around the connections between people and their objects of interest, are encountering boundaries in the areas of information integration, dissemination, reuse, portability, searchability, automation and demanding tasks like querying. The Semantic Web is an ideal platform for interlinking and performing operations on diverse person- and object-related data available from the Social Web, and has produced a variety of approaches to overcome the boundaries being experienced in Social Web application areas.

After a short overview of both the Social Web and the Semantic Web, Breslin et al. describe some popular social media and social networking applications, list their strengths and limitations, and describe some applications of Semantic Web technology to address their current shortcomings by enhancing them with semantics. Across these social websites, they demonstrate a twofold approach for interconnecting the islands that are social websites with semantic technologies, and for powering semantic applications with rich community-created content. They conclude with observations on how the application of Semantic Web technologies to the Social Web is leading towards the "Social Semantic Web" (sometimes also called "Web 3.0"), forming a network of interlinked and semantically-rich content and knowledge.

The book is intended for computer science professionals, researchers, and graduates interested in understanding the technologies and research issues involved in applying Semantic Web technologies to social software. Practitioners and developers interested in applications such as blogs, social networks or wikis will also learn about methods for increasing the levels of automation in these forms of Web communication.

Les processus métiers: concepts, modèles et systèmes

Karim Baina, Sami Bhiri, Francois Charoy, Walid Gaaloul, Claude Godart, Daniela Grigori, Olivier Perrin, Samir Tata.
Lavoisier, 2009

Reasoning Web, Fourth International Summer School 2008

Cristina Baroglio, Piero A. Bonatti, Jan Maluszynski, Massimo Marchiori, Axel Polleres, Sebastian Schaffert (ed.).
Springer, 2008

The Reasoning Web summer school series is a well-established event, attracting experts from academy and industry as well as PhD students interested in foundational and applicative aspects of the Semantic Web. This volume contains the lecture notes of the fourth edition, that took place in Venice, Italy, in September 2008. This year, the school has been focussed on some important application domains where semantic web techniques proved to be particularly effective or promising in tackling application needs.

The Semantic Web: Semantics for Data and Services on the Web (Data-Centric Systems and Applications)

Vipul Kashyap, Christoph Bussler, Matthew Moran.
Springer, 2008

Semantic Digital Libraries

Sebastian Ryszard Kruk, Bill McDaniel (ed.).
Springer, 2008

Libraries have always been an inspiration for the standards and technologies developed by semantic web activities. However, except for the Dublin Core specification, semantic web and social networking technologies have not been widely adopted and further developed by major digital library initiatives and projects. Yet semantic technologies offer a new level of flexibility, interoperability, and relationships for digital repositories. Kruk and McDaniel present semantic web-related aspects of current digital library activities, and introduce their functionality; they show examples ranging from general architectural descriptions to detailed usages of specific ontologies, and thus stimulate the awareness of researchers, engineers, and potential users of those technologies. Their presentation is completed by chapters on existing prototype systems such as JeromeDL, BRICKS, and Greenstone, as well as a look into the possible future of semantic digital libraries. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in areas like digital libraries, the semantic web, social networks, and information retrieval. This audience will benefit from detailed descriptions of both today’s possibilities and also the shortcomings of applying semantic web technologies to large digital repositories of often unstructured data.

Reasoning Web, Third International Summer School 2007

Grigoris Antoniou, Uwe Aßmann, Cristina Baroglio, Stefan Decker, Nicola Henze, Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Robert Tolksdorf (ed.).
Springer, 2007

Information Integration with Ontologies

Vladimir Alexiev, Michael Breu, Jos de Bruijn, Dieter Fensel, Rubén Lara, Holger Lausen (ed.).
John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Disparate information, spread over various sources, in various formats, and with incon­sistent semantics is a major obstacle for enterprises to use this information at its full potential. Information Grids should allow for the effective access, extraction and linking of dispersed information. Currently European coporations spend over 10 Billion Euro to deal with these problems.

Information Integration with Ontologies: Ontology based Information Integration in an Industrial Setting is ideal for technical experts and computer researchers in the IT-area looking to achieve integration of heterogeneous information and apply ontology technologies and techniques in practice. It will also be of great benefit to technical decision makers seeking infor­mation about ontology technologies and the scientific audience, interested in achievements towards the application of ontologies in an industrial setting.

Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management

John Davies, Dieter Fensel, Frank van Harmelen (ed.).
John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Aimed primarily at researchers and developers in the area of WWW-based knowledge management and information retrieval. It will also be a useful reference for students in computer science at the postgraduate level, academic and industrial researchers in the field, usiness managers who are aiming to enhance he organization's information infrastructure ad industrial personnel who are tracking WWW technology developments in order to understand the business implications.

Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential

Dieter Fensel, Wolfgang Wahlster, Henry Lieberman, James Hendler.
MIT Press, 2003

This first handbook for the Semantic Web covers, among other topics, software agents that can negotiate and collect information, markup languages that can tag many more types of information in a document, and knowledge systems that enable machines to read Web pages and determine their reliability. The truly interdisciplinary Semantic Web combines aspects of artificial intelligence, markup languages, natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, intelligent agents, and databases.

Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce

Dieter Fensel.
Springer, 2003

The author systematically introduces the notion of ontologies to the non-expert reader and demonstrates in detail how to apply this conceptual framework for improved intranet retrieval of corporate information and knowledge and for enhanced Internet-based electronic commerce. In the second part of the book, the author presents a more technical view on emerging Web standards, like XML, RDF, XSL-T, or XQL, allowing for structural and semantic modeling and description of data and information.

B2B Integration

Christoph Bussler.
Springer, 2003

Business-to-business (B2B) integration is a buzzword which has been used a lot in recent years, with a variety of meanings. Starting with a clear technical definition of this term and its relation to topics like A2A (Application-to-Application), ASP (Application Service Provider), A2A, and B2C (Business-to-Consumer), Christoph Bussler outlines a complete and consistent B2B integration architecture based on a coherent conceptual model. He shows that B2B integration not only requires the exchange of business events between distributed trading partners across networks like the Internet, but also demands back-end application integration within business processes, and thus goes far beyond traditional approaches to enterprise application integration approaches. His detailed presentation describes how B2B integration standards like RosettaNet or SWIFT, the application integration standard J2EE Connector Architecture and basic standards like XML act together in order to enable business process integration. The book is the first of its kind that discusses B2B concepts and architectures independent of specific and short-term industrial or academic approaches and thus provides solid and long-lasting knowledge for researchers, students, and professionals interested in the field of B2B integration.