Semantic Management of Middleware

• Main Author: Oberle, Daniel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Semantic Web and Beyond: Computing for Human Experience, 1
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer programming.; Software engineering.; Computers.; Multimedia information systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; Programming Techniques.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Information Systems and Communication Service.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Current middleware solutions, such as application servers and Web services, are very complex software products that are hard to tame because of the intricacies of distributed systems. So far, their functionalities have mostly been developed and managed with the help of administration tools and corre...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamentals
• Middleware
• Ontologies
• Towards Semantic Management
• Design of a Management Ontology
• Analysis of Existing Ontologies
• The Appropriate Foundational Ontology
• An Ontological Formalization of Software Components and Web Services
• Realization of Semantic Management
• Design of an Ontology-Based Application Server
• Implementation
• Applying the Management Ontology
• Finale
• Related Work
• Conclusion & Outlook.