Reasoning Web : Second International Summer School 2006, Lisbon, Portugal, September 4-8, 2006, Tutorial Lectures

by Barahona, Pedro; Bry, Francois; Franconi, Enrico; Henze, Nicola; Sattler, Ulrike

• ISBN13: 9783540384090
• ISBN10: 354038409X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-03
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book presents thoroughly arranged tutorial papers corresponding to lectures given by leading researchers at the Second International Summer School on Reasoning Web in Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2006. Building on the predessor school held in 2005 and published as LNCS 3564, the ten tutorial lectures presented provide competent coverage of current topics in semantic Web research and development. The lectures are organized in topical sections onsemantic Web query languagessemantic Web rules and ontologiesbioinformatics and medical ontologiesindustrial aspects.

Table of Contents

RDF querying : language constructs and evaluation methods compared	p. 1
Querying the Web with SPARQL	p. 53
Composition of rule sets and ontologies	p. 68
Reasoning with rules and ontologies	p. 93
Integrating ontologies and rules : semantic and computational issues	p. 128
Business rules in the semantic Web, are there any or are they different?	p. 152
Ontologies and text mining as a basis for a semantic Web for the life sciences	p. 164
Integrating Web resources to model protein structure and function	p. 184
Ontological and practical issues in using a description logic to represent medical concept systems : experience from GALEN	p. 197
The semantic Web from an industry perspective	p. 232
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