Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies

Semantic web is a maturing field of technology; which continues to be the emphasis of much focused research. This foundational text introduces students to those standardized knowledge representation languages for modeling ontologies operating at the core of the semantic web. To support the presentation of each language, illustrative working examples are supplied to demonstrate its syntax and underlying intuitions, as well as the formal semantics. The authors cover RDF schema, web ontology language OWL, and query languages, as well as XML schema. Qualifying instructors will have online access to exercises, solutions, links, and other supplementary material.