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Managing Web Projects (Hardcover): Edward B. Farkas Managing Web Projects (Hardcover)
Edward B. Farkas
R6,156 Discovery Miles 61 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Getting Web projects done right and delivered on time is all about efficiency. Putting the information you need and tools you can rely on at your ready disposal Managing Web Projects is a complete guide for project managers in the Internetworking industry. Whether you are a Web developer or an Internet Service Provider, whether your project is a quick fix, a complete overhaul, or a new start-up, this resource provides you with an organized path. It will walk you through a typical project life cycle, while providing you with all the tools and definitions needed to take charge and instill confidence in your staff and your customers.

Invaluable for those seeking ISO 9001 certification, the text includes a number of detailed Work Instructions that can be used to develop a formal quality management system specific to a project management organization. They can also be leveraged in a TQM (Total Quality Management) or a Six Sigma environment. The book includes:

  • Management guidelines for web hosting, data center migrations, site security, content development, application and Web site loading and testing, VPNs, VoIP, business continuity, and disaster recovery
  • An Internet project management glossary, a technical Internetworking glossary, and a project management acronym table
  • A tools suite with a proven record of success for project initiation, planning, execution, control, and close out

This complete resource provides the resources needed including dozens of time-tested templates, schedules, checklists, and flow charts to become fully versed in and aligned with the nine knowledge areas and five major processes codified by the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK ).

Semantic Web Technologies - Trends and Research in  Ontology-based Systems (Hardcover): J. Davies Semantic Web Technologies - Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems (Hardcover)
J. Davies
R3,093 Discovery Miles 30 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These machine-interpretable descriptions allow more intelligent software systems to be written, automating the analysis and exploitation of web-based information.

Software agents will be able to create "automatically" new services from already published services, with potentially huge implications for models of e-Business.

"Semantic Web Technologies" provides a comprehensive overview of key semantic knowledge technologies and research. The authors explain (semi-)automatic ontology generation and metadata extraction in depth, along with ontology management and mediation. Further chapters examine how Semantic Web technology is being applied in knowledge management ("Semantic Information Access") and in the next generation of Web services.

"Semantic Web Technologies: " Provides a comprehensive exposition of the state-of-the art in Semantic Web research and key technologies. Explains the use of ontologies and metadata to achieve machine-interpretability. Describes methods for ontology learning and metadata generation. Discusses ontology management and evolution, covering ontology change detection and propagation, ontology dependency and mediation. Illustrates the theoretical concepts with three case studies on industrial applications in digital libraries, the legal sector and the telecommunication industry.

Graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academic and industrial researchers in the field will all find "Semantic WebTechnologies" an essential guide to the technologies of the Semantic Web.

Service Composition for the Semantic Web (Hardcover, 2011 ed.): Brahim Medjahed, Athman Bouguettaya Service Composition for the Semantic Web (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Brahim Medjahed, Athman Bouguettaya
R2,989 Discovery Miles 29 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Service Composition for the Semantic Web" presents an in-depth analysis of aspects related to semantic-enabled Web service modeling and composition. It also covers challenges and solutions to composing Web services on the semantic Web, and proposing a semantic framework for organizing and describing Web services.

"Service Composition for the Semantic Web" describes composability and matching models to check whether semantic Web services can be combined together to avoid unexpected failures at run time, and a set of algorithms that automatically generate detailed descriptions of composite services from high-level specifications of composition requests. The book includes case studies in the areas of digital government and bioinformatics.

Handbook Of Metadata, Semantics And Ontologies (Hardcover): Miguel-Angel Sicilia Handbook Of Metadata, Semantics And Ontologies (Hardcover)
Miguel-Angel Sicilia
R5,440 Discovery Miles 54 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Metadata research has emerged as a discipline cross-cutting many domains, focused on the provision of distributed descriptions (often called annotations) to Web resources or applications. Such associated descriptions are supposed to serve as a foundation for advanced services in many application areas, including search and location, personalization, federation of repositories and automated delivery of information. Indeed, the Semantic Web is in itself a concrete technological framework for ontology-based metadata. For example, Web-based social networking requires metadata describing people and their interrelations, and large databases with biological information use complex and detailed metadata schemas for more precise and informed search strategies.There is a wide diversity in the languages and idioms used for providing meta-descriptions, from simple structured text in metadata schemas to formal annotations using ontologies, and the technologies for storing, sharing and exploiting meta-descriptions are also diverse and evolve rapidly. In addition, there is a proliferation of schemas and standards related to metadata, resulting in a complex and moving technological landscape - hence, the need for specialized knowledge and skills in this area.The Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies is intended as an authoritative reference for students, practitioners and researchers, serving as a roadmap for the variety of metadata schemas and ontologies available in a number of key domain areas, including culture, biology, education, healthcare, engineering and library science.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Cybernyms - Abbreviations and Acronyms used in Telecommunications, Electronics and Computer... Elsevier's Dictionary of Cybernyms - Abbreviations and Acronyms used in Telecommunications, Electronics and Computer Science (Hardcover)
T.R. Pyper, C.A.C Stout
R2,890 Discovery Miles 28 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This dictionary was produced in response to the rapidly increasing amount of quasi-industrial jargon in the field of information technology, compounded by the fact that these somewhat esoteric terms are often further reduced to acronyms and abbreviations that are seldom explained. Even when they are defined, individual interpretations continue to diverge.


Until now the codes have been reproduced in separate (language) publications: there is no universal listing in alphabetical order that covers the English, French, Spanish and German languages. This dictionary sets out the English, French, Spanish and German alternatives as a single, merge-sorted whole.

Today, most of the codes have passed into the public domain, simply because they exist in most of the telecommunications systems installed throughout the developed (and developing) world and are largely known to most of those who work in that particular area. However, foreign variants often defy even the most astute observer. This dictionary seeks to clarify this bewildering situation as much as possible. The 26,000 definitions set out here, drawn from some 16,000 individual cybernyms, cover computing, electronics, telecommunications (including intelligent networks and mobile telephony), together with satellite technology and Internet/Web terminology.


Annex I lists some of the innumerable file types found in the filing systems of computers using powerful desktop managers and Annex II lists the abbreviations of country names found in universal resource locators (URL).


"Elsevier's Dictionary of Cybernyms" is a useful tool for translators, students, universities and computer enthusiasts.

Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe (Paperback): Bruce Williams Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe (Paperback)
Bruce Williams; Contributions by Ben Wilson
R1,153 R1,001 Discovery Miles 10 010 Save R152 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Your domain is rich and interconnected, and your API should be too. Upgrade your web API to GraphQL, leveraging its flexible queries to empower your users, and its declarative structure to simplify your code. Absinthe is the GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, a functional programming language designed to enable massive concurrency atop robust application architectures. Written by the creators of Absinthe, this book will help you take full advantage of these two groundbreaking technologies. Build your own flexible, high-performance APIs using step-by-step guidance and expert advice you won't find anywhere else. GraphQL is a new way of structuring and building web services, and the result is transformational. Find out how to offer a more tailored, cohesive experience to your users, easily aggregate data from different data sources, and improve your back end's maintainability with Absinthe's declarative approach to defining how your API works. Build a GraphQL-based API from scratch using Absinthe, starting from core principles. Learn the type system and how to expand your schema to suit your application's needs. Discover a growing ecosystem of tools and utilities to understand, debug, and document your API. Take it to production, but do it safely with solid best practices in mind. Find out how complexity analysis and persisted queries can let you support your users flexibly, but responsibly too. Along the way, discover how Elixir makes all the difference for a high performance, fault-tolerant API. Use asynchronous and batching execution, or write your own custom add-ons to extend Absinthe. Go live with subscriptions, delivering data over websockets on top of Elixir (and Erlang/OTP's) famous solid performance and real-time capabilities. Transform your applications with the powerful combination of Elixir and GraphQL, using Absinthe. What You Need: To follow along with the book, you should have Erlang/OTP 19+ and Elixir 1.4+ installed. The book will guide you through setting up a new Phoenix application using Absinthe.

Industrial Applications of Semantic Web - Proceedings of the 1st International IFIP/WG12.5 Working Conference on Industrial... Industrial Applications of Semantic Web - Proceedings of the 1st International IFIP/WG12.5 Working Conference on Industrial Applications of Semantic Web, August 25-27, 2005 Jyvaskyla, Finland (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Vagan Terziyan
R3,069 Discovery Miles 30 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Semantic Web, that adds a conceptual layer of machine-understand able metadata to the existing content, will make the content available for processing by intelligent software allowing automatic resource integration and providing interoperability between heterogeneous systems. The Semantic Web is now the most important influence on the development of the Web. Next generation of intelligent applications will be capable to make use of such metadata to perform resource discovery and integration based on its seman tics. Semantic Web, aims at developing a global environment on top of Web with interoperable heterogeneous applications, agents, web services, data repositories, humans, and so on. On the technology side, Web-oriented lan guages and technologies are being developed (e.g. RDF, OWL, OWL-S, WSMO, etc.), and the success of the Semantic Web will depend on a wide spread industrial adoption of these technologies. Trend within worldwide activities related to Semantic Web definitely shows that the technology has emerging growth of interest both academic and industry during a relatively small time interval."

Regulation of Cloud Services under US and EU Antitrust, Competition and Privacy Laws (Hardcover, New edition): Sara Gabriella... Regulation of Cloud Services under US and EU Antitrust, Competition and Privacy Laws (Hardcover, New edition)
Sara Gabriella Hoffman
R1,682 Discovery Miles 16 820 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book examines how cloud-based services challenge the current application of antitrust and privacy laws in the EU and the US. The author looks at the elements of data centers, the way information is organized, and how antitrust, competition and privacy laws in the US and the EU regulate cloud-based services and their market practices. She discusses how platform interoperability can be a driver of incremental innovation and the consequences of not promoting radical innovation. She evaluates applications of predictive analysis based on big data as well as deriving privacy-invasive conduct. She looks at the way antitrust and privacy laws approach consumer protection and how lawmakers can reach more balanced outcomes by understanding the technical background of cloud-based services.

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist - Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL (Paperback, 2nd edition): Dean Allemang, James... Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist - Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Dean Allemang, James Hendler
R1,460 R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Save R127 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Semantic Web models and technologies provide information in machine-readable languages that enable computers to access the Web more intelligently and perform tasks automatically without the direction of users. These technologies are relatively recent and advancing rapidly, creating a set of unique challenges for those developing applications.

"Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist" is the essential, comprehensive resource on semantic modeling, for practitioners in health care, artificial intelligence, finance, engineering, military intelligence, enterprise architecture, and more. Focused on developing useful and reusable models, this market-leading book explains how to build semantic content (ontologies) and how to build applications that access that content.

New in this edition:

Coverage of the latest Semantic Web tools for organizing, querying, and processing information - see details in TOC below

Detailed information on the latest ontologies used in key web applications including ecommerce, social networking, data mining, using government data, and more
Updated with the latest developments and advances in Semantic Web technologies for organizing, querying, and processing information, including SPARQL, RDF and RDFS, OWL 2.0, and SKOS Detailed information on the ontologies used in today's key web applications, including ecommerce, social networking, data mining, using government data, and more Even more illustrative examples and case studies that demonstrate what semantic technologies are and how they work together to solve real-world problems

Handbook of Research on Big Data and the IoT (Hardcover): Gurjit Kaur, Pradeep Tomar Handbook of Research on Big Data and the IoT (Hardcover)
Gurjit Kaur, Pradeep Tomar
R7,930 Discovery Miles 79 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The increase in connected devices in the internet of things (IoT) is leading to an exponential increase in the data that an organization is required to manage. To successfully utilize IoT in businesses, big data analytics are necessary in order to efficiently sort through the increased data. The combination of big data and IoT can thus enable new monitoring services and powerful processing of sensory data streams. The Handbook of Research on Big Data and the IoT is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on emerging trends and recent innovative applications of big data and IoT, challenges facing organizations and the implications of these technologies on society, and best practices for their implementation. While highlighting topics such as bootstrapping, data fusion, and graph mining, this publication is ideally designed for IT specialists, managers, policymakers, analysts, software engineers, academicians, and researchers.

Auditing Corporate Surveillance Systems - Research Methods for Greater Transparency (Hardcover, New Ed): Isabel Wagner Auditing Corporate Surveillance Systems - Research Methods for Greater Transparency (Hardcover, New Ed)
Isabel Wagner
R1,856 Discovery Miles 18 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

News headlines about privacy invasions, discrimination, and biases discovered in the platforms of big technology companies are commonplace today, and big tech's reluctance to disclose how they operate counteracts ideals of transparency, openness, and accountability. This book is for computer science students and researchers who want to study big tech's corporate surveillance from an experimental, empirical, or quantitative point of view and thereby contribute to holding big tech accountable. As a comprehensive technical resource, it guides readers through the corporate surveillance landscape and describes in detail how corporate surveillance works, how it can be studied experimentally, and what existing studies have found. It provides a thorough foundation in the necessary research methods and tools, and introduces the current research landscape along with a wide range of open issues and challenges. The book also explains how to consider ethical issues and how to turn research results into real-world change.

Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web - Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications (Hardcover, 2011 ed.): Naveen Ashish,... Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web - Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Naveen Ashish, Amit P. Sheth
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The availability of geographic and geospatial information and services, especially on the open Web has become abundant in the last several years with the proliferation of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled applications. The need for geospatial reasoning has significantly increased in many everyday applications including personal digital assistants, Web search applications, local aware mobile services, specialized systems for emergency response, medical triaging, intelligence analysis and more.

"Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web: Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications," an edited volume contributed by world class leaders in this field, provides recent research in the theme of geospatial semantics. This edited volume presents new information systems applications that have potential for high impact and commercialization. Also, special effort was made by the contributors to focus on geospatial ontology development, related standards, geospatial ontology alignment and integration, and algorithmic techniques for geospatial semantics. Case studies and examples will be provided throughout this book as well as possibilities for future research.

Search Engine Optimization and Marketing - A Recipe for Success in Digital Marketing (Hardcover): Subhankar Das Search Engine Optimization and Marketing - A Recipe for Success in Digital Marketing (Hardcover)
Subhankar Das
R3,283 Discovery Miles 32 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Search Engine Optimization and Marketing: A Recipe for Success in Digital Marketing analyzes the web traffic for online promotion that includes search engine optimization and search engine marketing. After careful analysis of the nuances of the semantic web, of search engine optimization (SEO), and its practical set up, readers can put their best foot forward for SEO setup, link-building for SERP establishment, various methods with requisite algorithms, and programming codes with process inferences. The book offers comprehensive coverage of essential topics, including: * The concept of SEM and SEO * The mechanism of crawler program concepts of keywords * Keyword generation tools * Page ranking mechanism and indexing * Concepts of title, meta, alt tags * Concepts of PPC/PPM/CTR * SEO/SEM strategies * Anchor text and setting up * Query-based search While other books are focused on the traditional explanation of digital marketing, theoretical features of SEO and SEM for keyword set up with link-building, this book focuses on the practical applications of the above-mentioned concepts for effective SERP generation. Another unique aspect of this book is its abundance of handy workarounds to set up the techniques for SEO, a topic too often neglected by other works in the field. This book is an invaluable resource for social media analytics researchers and digital marketing students.

Smart Innovation of Web of Things (Hardcover): Aarti Jain, Ruben Gonzalez Crespo, Manju Khari Smart Innovation of Web of Things (Hardcover)
Aarti Jain, Ruben Gonzalez Crespo, Manju Khari
R4,779 Discovery Miles 47 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Web of Things (WoT) is a concept that describes approaches, programming tools and software architectural systems, which interface networks of real-world objects with the World Wide Web. The book is organized into 11 chapters, each focusing on a unique wireless technological aspect of the Web of Things, and it aims to comprehensively cover each of its various applications, including: A strong emphasis on WoT problems and solutions, identifying the main open issues, innovations and latest technologies behind WoT A blend of theoretical and simulation-based problems for better understanding of the concepts behind WoT Various exemplifying applications in which the use of WoT is very attractive and an inspiration for future applications The book will be useful to researchers, software developers and undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as practitioners.

Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, Education - 10th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2017, Gdansk, Poland,... Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, Education - 10th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2017, Gdansk, Poland, September 22, 2017, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Stanislaw Wrycza, Jacek Maslankowski
R1,952 Discovery Miles 19 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2017 titled Information Systems: Research, Development, Applications, and Education, held in Gdansk and Sopot, Poland, on September 27, 2017. The objective of the EuroSymposium on Systems Analysis and Design is to promote and develop high quality research on all issues related to analysis and design (SAND). It provides a forum for SAND researchers and practitioners in Europe and beyond to interact, collaborate, and develop their field. The 10 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions.They are organized in topical sections on data analytics, Web-based information systems, and information systems development.

Browsers, Devices, and Fonts - A Designer's Guide to Fonts and How They Function on the Web (Hardcover): Gary Rozanc Browsers, Devices, and Fonts - A Designer's Guide to Fonts and How They Function on the Web (Hardcover)
Gary Rozanc
R4,120 Discovery Miles 41 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Part technical and part theoretical, this practical guide to web typography helps designers understand how the typographic choices they make in layout and prototyping programs behave once they are turned into live code. Through a series of demos, this book teaches designers how to create typographic specific webpages by learning just enough HTML and CSS to be able to view the pages in different browsers, devices, and operating systems. With live webpages to evaluate, designers will learn how to test those pages for supported features and performance, ensuring font choices look as good in the browser as it does in their layout program, delivering a speedy experience to the users. Key Features Demonstrates the minimal amount of HTML and CSS necessary to be able to create webpages to see typographic choices in the browser. Discusses responsive design and how to evaluate and test those choices for performance and usability prior to front-end development. Demonstrates how to review your own typographic, image, and layout choices in the browser through a series of demos in the book.

Web Wisdom - How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web, Third Edition (Paperback, 3rd edition): Marsha Ann Tate Web Wisdom - How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web, Third Edition (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Marsha Ann Tate
R2,118 Discovery Miles 21 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The World Wide Web has undergone tremendous growth since the first edition of Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web was conceived and written in the mid to late 1990s. The phenomenal global expansion of the internet, together with the increasing sophistication of online technologies and software applications, requires us to be more savvy Web users, especially given the growing complexity of Web-based information. This new edition of Web Wisdom covers key issues that users and creators of Web resources need to know regarding reliable and useful information on the Web, including social media content. Written in a straightforward and accessible format, the book also provides critical evaluation techniques and tools to enhance Web-based research and the creation of high quality content. Features Includes checklists comprised of basic questions to ask when evaluating or creating web resources Provides an expanded discussion of copyright, trademark, and other related issues with specific reference to web authoring Contains a chapter devoted exclusively to social media applications and their unique evaluation challenges Presents a new section that addresses the evaluation challenges that are related to combining traditional and social media content Offers a new section focused on computer-generated text and its allied evaluation challenges Introduces a revised and expanded companion website that provides a variety of supplemental materials related to the evaluation and creation of web content as well as links to additional examples This book demonstrates how to adapt and apply the five core traditional evaluation criteria (authority, accuracy, objectivity, currency, coverage) originally introduced in the first edition, to the modern-day Web environment.

Data Management and Query Processing in Semantic Web Databases (Paperback, 2011 ed.): Sven Groppe Data Management and Query Processing in Semantic Web Databases (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Sven Groppe
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Semantic Web, which is intended to establish a machine-understandable Web, is currently changing from being an emerging trend to a technology used in complex real-world applications. A number of standards and techniques have been developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), e.g., the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which provides a general method for conceptual descriptions for Web resources, and SPARQL, an RDF querying language. Recent examples of large RDF data with billions of facts include the UniProt comprehensive catalog of protein sequence, function and annotation data, the RDF data extracted from Wikipedia, and Princeton University's WordNet. Clearly, querying performance has become a key issue for Semantic Web applications. In his book, Groppe details various aspects of high-performance Semantic Web data management and query processing. His presentation fills the gap between Semantic Web and database books, which either fail to take into account the performance issues of large-scale data management or fail to exploit the special properties of Semantic Web data models and queries. After a general introduction to the relevant Semantic Web standards, he presents specialized indexing and sorting algorithms, adapted approaches for logical and physical query optimization, optimization possibilities when using the parallel database technologies of today's multicore processors, and visual and embedded query languages. Groppe primarily targets researchers, students, and developers of large-scale Semantic Web applications. On the complementary book webpage readers will find additional material, such as an online demonstration of a query engine, and exercises, and their solutions, that challenge their comprehension of the topics presented.

Change Management for Semantic Web Services (Paperback, 2011 ed.): Xumin Liu, Salman Akram, Athman Bouguettaya Change Management for Semantic Web Services (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Xumin Liu, Salman Akram, Athman Bouguettaya
R2,849 Discovery Miles 28 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Change Management for Semantic Web Services provides a thorough analysis of change management in the lifecycle of services for databases and workflows, including changes that occur at the individual service level or at the aggregate composed service level. This book describes taxonomy of changes that are expected in semantic service oriented environments. The process of change management consists of detecting, propagating, and reacting to changes. Change Management for Semantic Web Services is one of the first books that discuss the development of a theoretical foundation for managing changes in atomic and long-term composed services. This book also proposes a formal model and a change language to provide sufficient semantics for change management; it devises an automatic process to react to, verify, and optimize changes. Case studies and examples are presented in the last section of this book.

Foundations for the Web of Information and Services - A Review of 20 Years of Semantic Web Research (Paperback, 2011 ed.):... Foundations for the Web of Information and Services - A Review of 20 Years of Semantic Web Research (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Dieter Fensel
R4,370 Discovery Miles 43 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the mid 1990s, Tim Berners-Lee had the idea of developing the World Wide Web into a "Semantic Web", a web of information that could be interpreted by machines in order to allow the automatic exploitation of data, which until then had to be done by humans manually. One of the first people to research topics related to the Semantic Web was Professor Rudi Studer. From the beginning, Rudi drove projects like ONTOBROKER and On-to-Knowledge, which later resulted in W3C standards such as RDF and OWL. By the late 1990s, Rudi had established a research group at the University of Karlsruhe, which later became the nucleus and breeding ground for Semantic Web research, and many of today's well-known research groups were either founded by his disciples or benefited from close cooperation with this think tank. In this book, published in celebration of Rudi's 60th birthday, many of his colleagues look back on the main research results achieved during the last 20 years. Under the editorship of Dieter Fensel, once one of Rudi's early PhD students, an impressive list of contributors and contributions has been collected, covering areas like Knowledge Management, Ontology Engineering, Service Management, and Semantic Search. Overall, this book provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in Semantic Web research, by combining historical roots with the latest results, which may finally make the dream of a "Web of knowledge, software and services" come true.

Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web - Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications (Paperback, 2011 ed.): Naveen Ashish,... Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web - Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Naveen Ashish, Amit P. Sheth
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The availability of geographic and geospatial information and services, especially on the open Web has become abundant in the last several years with the proliferation of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled applications. The need for geospatial reasoning has significantly increased in many everyday applications including personal digital assistants, Web search applications, local aware mobile services, specialized systems for emergency response, medical triaging, intelligence analysis and more. Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web: Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications, an edited volume contributed by world class leaders in this field, provides recent research in the theme of geospatial semantics. This edited volume presents new information systems applications that have potential for high impact and commercialization. Also, special effort was made by the contributors to focus on geospatial ontology development, related standards, geospatial ontology alignment and integration, and algorithmic techniques for geospatial semantics. Case studies and examples will be provided throughout this book as well as possibilities for future research.

Web Technologies and Applications - 15th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2013, Sydney, Australia, April 4-6, 2013,... Web Technologies and Applications - 15th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2013, Sydney, Australia, April 4-6, 2013, Proceedings (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Jianzhong Li, Wei Wang, Rui Zhang, Wenjie Zhang
R1,690 Discovery Miles 16 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific Conference APWeb 2013 held in Sydney, Australia, in April 2013. The 80 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed processing; graphs; Web search and Web mining; XML, RDF data and query processing; social networks; probabilistic queries; multimedia and visualization; spatial-temporal databases; data mining and knowledge discovery; privacy and security; performance, query processing and optimization. There are also sections summarizing the tutorials and containing the papers from the following workshops: second international workshop on data management for emerging network infrastructure, international workshop on soical media analytics and recommendation technologies, and international workshop on management of spatial temporal data.

Algorithms of the Intelligent Web, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition): Douglas McIlwraith, Haralambos Marmanis, Dmitry... Algorithms of the Intelligent Web, Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Douglas McIlwraith, Haralambos Marmanis, Dmitry Babenko
R1,069 R952 Discovery Miles 9 520 Save R117 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

DESCRIPTION There's priceless insight trapped in the flood of data users leave behind as they interact with web pages and applications. Those insights can be unlocked by using intelligent algorithms like the ones that have earned Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft a place among the giants of web data pattern extraction. Improved search, data classification, and other smart pattern matching techniques can give an enormous advantage to understanding and interacting with users. Algorithms of the Intelligent Web, Second Edition has been totally revised and teaches the most important approaches to algorithmic web data analysis, enabling readers to create machine learning applications that crunch, munge, and wrangle data collected from users, web applications, sensors, and website logs. Key machine learning concepts are explained and introduced with many code examples in Python's scikit-learn. The book guides readers through the underlying machinery and intelligent algorithms to capture, store, and structure data streams. Readers will explore recommendation engines from the example of Netflix movie recommendations and dive into classification via statistical algorithms, neural networks, and deep learning. They will also consider the ins and outs of ranking and how to test applications based on intelligent algorithms. KEY SELLING POINTS Machine learning for newbies Easily accessed examples Concepts presented are technology agnostic AUDIENCE To get the most from this book, you should have a good foundation in Java programming and a general understanding of internet technology. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY This book provides an overview, with easy to access examples, of algorithms which learn from data. Such algorithms have been widely adopted by many large internet companies such as Facebook and Google and are continuing to grow in popularity. This book has many examples in Python using the scikit-learn library, however the concepts presented are technology agnostic and can be easily applied with any common programming language.

Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Information Retrieval (Paperback, 2010 ed.): Richard Chbeir, Youakim Badr, Ajith Abraham,... Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Information Retrieval (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Richard Chbeir, Youakim Badr, Ajith Abraham, Aboul Ella Hassanien
R4,411 Discovery Miles 44 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Richard Chbeir, Youakim Badr, Ajith Abraham, and Aboul-Ella Hassanien Abstract As the Web continues to grow and evolve, more and more data are becoming available. Particularly, multimedia and XML-based data are produced regularly and in increasing way in our daily digital activities, and their retrieval and access must be explored and studied in this emergent web-based era. This book provides reviews of the cutting-edge technologies and insights of various topics related to XML-based and multimedia information access and retrieval under the umbrella of Web Intelligence and reporting how organizations can gain compe- tive advantages by applying new different emergent techniques in the real-world scenarios. The primary target audience for the book includes researchers, scholars, postgraduate students and developers who are interested in advanced information retrieval on the web research and related issues. 1 Introduction Since the last two decades, Internet has changed our daily life by rede?ning the meanings and processes of business, commerce, marketing, ?nance, publishing, R. Chbeir Universite ' de Bourgogne, LE2I-UMR CNRS 5158, Fac. de Sciences Mirande, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France e-mail: richard. chbeir@u-bourgogne. fr Y. Badr INSA de Lyon, Universite ' de Lyon, Depart ' ement Informatique, 7 avenue Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne CX, France e-mail: youakim. badr@insa-lyon. fr A. Abraham Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Center for Quanti?able Quality of Service in Communication Systems, O. S. Bragstads plass 2E, 7491 Trondheim, Norway e-mail: ajith. abraham@ieee. org A. -E. Hassanien Kuwait University, College of Business & Administration, Dept.

Web Technologies and Applications - 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2012, Kunming, China, April 11-13, Proceedings... Web Technologies and Applications - 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2012, Kunming, China, April 11-13, Proceedings (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific Conference APWeb 2012 held in Kunming, China, in April 2012. The 39 full papers presented together with 34 short papers, 2 keynote talks, and 5 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 initial submissions. The papers cover contemporary topics in the fields of Web management and World Wide Web related research and applications, such as advanced application of databases, cloud computing, content management, data mining and knowledge discovery, distributed and parallel processing, grid computing, internet of things, semantic Web and Web ontology, security, privacy and trust, sensor networks, service-oriented computing, Web community analysis, Web mining and social networks.

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