Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning - International Workshop, PPSWR 2003, Mumbai, India, December 8, 2003, Proceedings (Paperback, 2003 ed.)

The Semantic Web is a major endeavor aimed at enriching the existing Web withmetadataandprocessingmethodssoastoprovideWeb-basedsystemswith advanced(so-calledintelligent)capabilities, inparticularwithcontext-awareness and decision support. The advanced capabilities striven for in most Semantic Web application s- narios primarily call for reasoning. Reasoning capabilities are o?ered by exi- ing Semantic Web languages, such as BPEL4WS, BPML, ConsVISor, DAML-S, JTP, TRIPLE, and others. These languages, however, were developed mostly from functionality-centered (e.g., ontology reasoning or access validation) or application-centered (e.g., Web service retrieval and composition) perspectives. A perspective centered on the reasoning techniques (e.g., forward or backward chaining, tableau-like methods, constraint reasoning, etc.) complementing the above-mentioned activities appears desirable for Semantic Web systems and - plications. The workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reas- ing, which took place on December 8, 2003, in Mumbai, India, was the ?rst of a series of scienti?c meetings devoted to such a perspective. JustasthecurrentWebisinherentlyheterogeneousindataformatsanddata semantics, the Semantic Web will be inherently heterogeneous in its reasoning forms.Indeed, anysingleformof reasoningturnsouttobeirrealin theSemantic Web. For example, ontology reasoning in general relies on monotonic negation (for the metadata often can be fully speci?ed), while databases, Web databases, and Web-based information systems call for non-monotonic reasoning (for one would not specify non-existing trains in a railway timetable); constraint reas- ing is needed when dealing with time (for time intervals have to be dealt with), while(forwardand/orbackward)chainingisthereasoningofchoicewhencoping with database-like views (for views, i.e., virtual data, can be derived from actual data using operations such as join and projections)."

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Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2901
Release date:	November 2003
First published:	2003
Editors:	Francois Bry • Nicola Henze • Jan Maluszynski
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	214
Edition:	2003 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-20582-1
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Internet > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Databases > Web / Internet databases Promotions
LSN:	3-540-20582-9
Barcode:	9783540205821

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