Agency and the Semantic Web

Christopher Walton

250 pages, parution le 12/10/2006

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Résumé

Provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art techniques and popularly defined standards
Contains detailed end of chapter summaries and suggested further reading
End of chapter exercises reinforce the text
Numerous small programming examples are provided
Clear, informative diagrams illustrate the text throughout

This highly topical text considers the construction of the next generation of the Web, called the Semantic Web. This will enable computers to automatically consume Web-based information, overcoming the human-centric focus of the Web as it stands at present, and expediting the construction of a whole new class of knowledge-based applications that will intelligently utilise Web content.

The text is structured into three main sections on knowledge representation techniques, reasoning with multi-agent systems, and knowledge services. For each of these topics, the text provides an overview of the state-of-the-art techniques and the popular standards that have been defined. Numerous small programming examples are given, which demonstrate how the benefits of the Semantic Web technologies can be realised at the present time. The main theoretical results underlying each of the technologies are presented, and the main problems and research issues which remain are summarised.

Based on a course on 'Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web' taught at the University of Edinburgh, this text is ideal for final-year undergraduate and graduate students in Mathematics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Logic and researchers interested in Multi-Agent Systems and the Semantic Web.

Readership: Final-year undergraduate and graduate students in Mathematics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Logic with a reasonable degree of programming and Web experience.

L'auteur - Christopher Walton

Christopher Walton, Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Sommaire

Foreword, Dr David Robertson (Director, CISA, The University of Edinburgh)
The Semantic Web
Web Knowledge
Reactive Agents
Practical Reasoning and Deductive Agents
Reasoning on the Web
Agent Communication
Semantic Web Services
Conclusions
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Christopher Walton
Parution	12/10/2006
Nb. de pages	250
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	523g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199292486
ISBN13	978-0-19-929248-6