The Semantic Web Explained
The Technology and Mathematics behind Web 3.0

Describes the underlying theory as well as algorithms, optimisation ideas and implementation details. Includes numerous examples and exercises.

Péter Szeredi (Author), Gergely Lukácsy (Author), Tamás Benk? (Author), Zsolt Nagy (Contributions by)

9780521700368, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 September 2014

478 pages, 117 b/w illus. 195 exercises
24.7 x 17.4 x 2.6 cm, 0.83 kg

The Semantic Web is a new area of research and development in the field of computer science that aims to make it easier for computers to process the huge amount of information on the web, and indeed other large databases, by enabling them not only to read, but also to understand the information. Based on successful courses taught by the authors, and liberally sprinkled with examples and exercises, this comprehensive textbook describes not only the theoretical issues underlying the Semantic Web, but also algorithms, optimisation ideas and implementation details. The book will therefore be valuable to practitioners as well as students, indeed to anyone who is interested in Internet technology, knowledge engineering or description logics. Supplementary materials available online include the source code of program examples and solutions to selected exercises.

Introduction
Part I. The Semantic Web: 1. The World Wide Web today
2. The Semantic Web and the RDF language
3. Managing and querying RDF sources
Part II. Ontologies and Logics: 4. Description logics
5. Reasoning on simple description logics
6. Implementing a simple description logic reasoning engine
7. The SHIQ tableau algorithm
Part III. Ontologies and the Semantic Web: 8. The Web Ontology Language
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Computer science [UY], Databases & the Web [UNN], Database design & theory [UNA], Databases [UN], Programming & scripting languages: general [UMX], Web services [UMWS], Web programming [UMW], Database programming [UMT]