Agency and the Semantic Web

Author:   Christopher Walton (Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199292486


Pages:   270
Publication Date:   12 October 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Agency and the Semantic Web


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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.

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Author:   Christopher Walton (Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780199292486


ISBN 10:   0199292485
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   12 October 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Dr David Robertson (Director, CISA, The University of Edinburgh): Foreword 1: The Semantic Web 2: Web Knowledge 3: Reactive Agents 4: Practical Reasoning and Deductive Agents 5: Reasoning on the Web 6: Agent Communication 7: Semantic Web Services 8: Conclusions Index

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Dr Christopher Walton is a senior research fellow in the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications at the University of Edinburgh. He has been closely involved in the Multiagent Systems and Semantic Web communities since the completion of his PhD in 2001. He is currently employed on the EU-funded Open Knowledge (OK) project (www.openk.org) which is principally concerned with the advancement of agent-based techniques for knowledge management on the Semantic Web.

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