The Social Web (including services such as MySpace, Flickr, last.fm, and WordPress) has captured the attention of millions of users as well as billions of dollars in investment and acquisition. Social websites, evolving around the connections between people and their objects of interest, are encountering boundaries in the areas of information integration, dissemination, reuse, portability, searchability, automation and demanding tasks like querying. The Semantic Web is an ideal platform for interlinking and performing operations on diverse person- and object-related data available from the Social Web, and has produced a variety of approaches to overcome the boundaries being experienced in Social Web application areas.

After a short overview of both the Social Web and the Semantic Web, Breslin et al. describe some popular social media and social networking applications, list their strengths and limitations, and describe some applications of Semantic Web technology to address their current shortcomings by enhancing them with semantics. Across these social websites, they demonstrate a twofold approach for interconnecting the islands that are social websites with semantic technologies, and for powering semantic applications with rich community-created content. They conclude with observations on how the application of Semantic Web technologies to the Social Web is leading towards the "Social Semantic Web" (sometimes also called "Web 3.0"), forming a network of interlinked and semantically-rich content and knowledge.

The book is intended for computer science professionals, researchers, and graduates interested in understanding the technologies and research issues involved in applying Semantic Web technologies to social software. Practitioners and developers interested in applications such as blogs, social networks or wikis will also learn about methods for increasing the levels of automation in these forms of Web communication.

The Social Web (including services such as MySpace, Flickr, last.fm, and WordPress) has captured the attention of millions of users as well as billions of dollars in investment and acquisition. Social websites, evolving around the connections between people and their objects of interest, are encountering boundaries in the areas of information integration, dissemination, reuse, portability, searchability, automation and demanding tasks like querying. The Semantic Web is an ideal platform for interlinking and performing operations on diverse person- and object-related data available from the Social Web, and has produced a variety of approaches to overcome the boundaries being experienced in Social Web application areas. After a short overview of both the Social Web and the Semantic Web, Breslin et al. describe some popular social media and social networking applications, list their strengths and limitations, and describe some applications of Semantic Web technology to address their current shortcomings by enhancing them with semantics. Across these social websites, they demonstrate a twofold approach for interconnecting the islands that are social websites with semantic technologies, and for powering semantic applications with rich community-created content. They conclude with observations on how the application of Semantic Web technologies to the Social Web is leading towards the "Social Semantic Web" (sometimes also called "Web 3.0"), forming a network of interlinked and semantically-rich content and knowledge. The book is intended for computer science professionals, researchers, and graduates interested in understanding the technologies and research issues involved in applying Semantic Web technologies to social software. Practitioners and developers interested in applications such as blogs, social networks or wikis will also learn about methods for increasing the levels of automation in these forms of Web communication.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006, held in Athens, GA, USA in November 2006. It features more than 52 papers that address all current issues in the field of the semantic Web, ranging from theoretical aspects to various applied topics. An additional 14 papers detail applications in government, public health, public service, academic, and industry.

This book contains a collection of thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the Second International Summer School on the Reasoning Web in Dresden, Germany, September 3-7, 2007. The objective of the book is to provide a coherent introduction to Semantic Web methods and research issues with a particular focus on reasoning.

The nine tutorial papers presented provide competent coverage of methods and research issues of the Semantic Web, ontology languages and their relation to description logics, Web query languages, XML, RDF and Topics Maps, evolution and reactivity, personalization in the Semantic Web, rule modeling with UML, techniques in Web information extraction, employing ontologies to ease construction of software applications, and type checking for Web rule and query languages.

Stefan Decker analysiert aus der Literatur bekannte Performancemasse unter der Annahme, dass Investoren unterschiedliche Zielsetzungen bezuglich Rendite, Risiko, Liquiditat und Zeithorizont haben und die personliche Vermogenssituation sowie die individuelle Risikoaversion des Investors im Rahmen der Kapitalanlageentscheidung zu berucksichtigen sind

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Jura - Steuerrecht, Note: 1,7, Universitat Regensburg (Philosophische Fakultat III), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Zusammenfassung: Die Vorschrift des 3c EStG fuhrte bis zur Unternehmenssteuerreform 2001 ein relatives Schattendasein. Als Gegenpol zu im Grossen und Ganzen relativ unspektakularen Steuerbefreiungen, die auch nicht die Masse der Bevolkerung bzw. kumulativ betrachtet hohe Betrage betreffen, wurde der Vorschrift auch in Kommentaren meist vergleichsweise wenig Beachtung geschenkt. Man konnte die Regelung fur selbstverstandlich bzw. die Vorschrift sogar fur uberflussig halten, so selbstverstandlich erscheint die Intention, welche dahinter steckt. Dies anderte sich aber mit der Verabschiedung des StSenkG am 14.7.2000 und der Einfuhrung des sog. Halbeinkunfteverfahrens. Der Anwendungsbereich des 3c EStG wurde dabei wesentlich erweitert. 3c Abs.1 EStG erfasst nunmehr nicht nur die Behandlung von Ausgaben im Zusammenhang mit steuerfreien Einnahmen im Allgemeinen, sondern auch Aufwendungen (Finanzierungsaufwendungen, Beratungskosten, Verwaltungskosten, etc.) im Zusammenhang mit steuerfreien Beteiligungseinnahmen i.S.d. 8b KStG. 3c Abs.2 EStG regelt die Behandlung von Ausgaben im Zusammenhang mit Beteiligungseinnahmen i.S.d. 3 Nr.40 EStG. Im einem ersten Teil der Arbeit werden zunachst die wesentlichen Aussagen des 3c Abs.1 EStG und Abs. 2 EStG aufgezeigt. Dabei werden v.a. die generellen Wesensmerkmale der beiden Absatze herausgearbeitet, z.B. den Unterschied zwischen Unmittelbarkeit und Mittelbarkeit bzw. welche Folgen sich fur die Abzugsfahigkeit der entsprechenden Beteiligungsausgaben ergeben. Die Behandlung von Ausgaben im Zusammenhang mit einbringungsgeborenen Anteilen, sowie die Abgrenzung bzw. Behandlung von Ausgaben im Zusammenhang mit auslandischen Beteiligungen werden ausfuhrlich erklart. Anschliessend wird einem zweiten theoretischen Part, der aber anschaulich durch Beispi