Semantic Web Services Concepts, Technologies, and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Studer, Rudi (Editor), Grimm, Stephan (Editor), Abecker, Andreas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computer communication systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Application software.; E-commerce.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; IT in Business.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; e-Commerce/e-business.; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing.; Computer Communication Networks.

In just a few years, service-oriented architectures (SOA) and Web services not only gained considerable interest in computer science research, they were also taken up with unanimity by all major international players in the IT industry. However, and in spite of all existing standards, in most SOA ap...

Table of Contents:

• Web Services Technology
• Towards Service-Oriented Architectures
• Architecture and Standardisation of Web Services
• Semantic Web Technology
• Knowledge Representation and Ontologies
• Ontology Development
• Semantic Annotation of Resources in the Semantic Web
• Semantic Web Services
• Goals and Vision
• Description
• Discovery
• Composition
• Mediation
• Tools and Use Cases
• Tools for Semantic Web Services
• Ontology-Based Change Management in an eGovernment Application Scenario
• An eGovernment Case Study
• An eHealth Case Study.