Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies (Chapman & Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing) - Hardcover

Hitzler, Pascal; Krotzsch, Markus; Rudolph, Sebastian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 142009050X ISBN 13: 9781420090505

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011

Synopsis

With more substantial funding from research organizations and industry, numerous large-scale applications, and recently developed technologies, the Semantic Web is quickly emerging as a well-recognized and important area of computer science. While Semantic Web technologies are still rapidly evolving, Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies focuses on the established foundations in this area that have become relatively stable over time. It thoroughly covers basic introductions and intuitions, technical details, and formal foundations.

The book concentrates on Semantic Web technologies standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium: RDF and SPARQL enable data exchange and querying, RDFS and OWL provide expressive ontology modeling, and RIF supports rule-based modeling. The text also describes methods for specifying, querying, and reasoning with ontological information. In addition, it explores topics that are clearly beyond foundations, such as tools, applications, and engineering aspects.

Written by highly respected researchers with a deep understanding of the material, this text centers on the formal specifications of the subject and supplies many pointers that are useful for employing Semantic Web technologies in practice.

The book has an accompanying website with supplemental information.

About this title

About the Author

Pascal Hitzler works in the Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

Markus Krötzsch and Sebastian Rudolph work in the institute AIFB at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.

From the Back Cover

Thoroughly covering basic introductions and intuitions, technical details, and formal foundations, this text focuses on the established foundations in this area that have become relatively stable over time. It presents the latest developments in Semantic Web standards, including RDF, RDF Schema, OWL 2, RIF, and SPARQL. It also explores formal semantics, OWL querying, the relationship between rules and OWL, and ontology engineering and applications. The authors include many exercises with solutions in the back of the book and offer updates, errata, slides for teaching, and links to further resources at http://semantic-web-book.org/

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 142009050X
• ISBN 13: 9781420090505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456