Exploring the Web : Visualizing semantic s, services & applications

Exploring the Web presents a unique, comprehensible treatment of the Web, from its foundations to cutting-edge technologies and applications. The work goes beyond a major web development by demonstrating how the Semantic Web facilitates joint interaction between human beings and machines. In a well-written, user-friendly, and systematic exposition, motivated by numerous easy-to-understand diagrams and hands-on examples, the four parts of the book examine the principles underlying web design, the technologies that support its operations, and a host of web applications. Starting with web fundamentals and XML explained in terms of objects and processes, the reader is then introduced to Web Services and its supporting standards. Later chapters are devoted to the Semantic Web: Resource Description Language (RDF), Web Ontology Language, (OWL), and the Visual Semantic Web (ViSWeb). The concluding chapters treat an array of applications, interactively intertwining theory and practice.

Introduction to Internet and Web Landscape. Web Infrastructure Technologies Overview. XML Basics. Standardards and Standardization Organizations. Web Services Computing Platforms. Object-Process Methodology. Web Services. Web Services Flow Language. Web-based Domain Modeling and Engineering. Web Application Integration Evolution. Semantic Web. OWL and DAML-S. ViSWeb. Business Connectivity on the Web. Modeling Biological Systems with ViSWeb. Diagnosing and Caring for Alzheimer's Disease Patients. Gene Expression. Emerging Technologies and Future Trends. Bibliography . Index.

This book examines the principles underlying web design, the technologies that support its operations, and a host of web applications. The material covers web fundamentals and XML, Web Services, the Semantic Web, and an array of applications. It goes beyond major web developments by demonstrating how the Semantic Web facilitates joint interaction between human beings and machines. Web application developers, software engineers, and Internet-based system architects will find the book an essential resource in their work.