Ebook: Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services

Издательство IGI Global, 2009, -1100 pp.Well… today Web is about communication, about meanings, about socialization, let’s say, about semantics, and not mere computer connections and in its previous generation.
Almost everything turns around Web and of what relates with Web: we are meaning the development of applications, business processes, governmental initiatives, research, defense, terrorism, and an interminable set of subjects. And this is why one of the main concerns relies clearly on the way all the information, useful or not, updated or not, should be organized on the Web and made available to the user.
The semantic technologies are the most important contribution to the development of the Web, towards a universally recognized medium of exchanging information, with impact on people, organizations and society. It is becoming a rapidly growing area in IT, with emerging key developments, tools, techniques, that are engineering the Web of the future, and determining a new way of acceding, using and exploring information and creating knowledge.
The impact of IT on the society, on organizations of every stripe and on individuals is growing. Today, key challenges of Semantic Web include, besides the technological dimension, the impact on people and on society, which are revealing increased relevance.
A few years ago it would have appeared impossible to think about a global Web of semantically structured information.
Today, the Web is recognized as a main support of business processes. Business Process Management Technologies are progressively gaining its space; legacy systems and multiple databases are surviving through important models of data integration; business processes are re adapting to the emerging business paradigms and different enterprises inter-interact either through their interfaces or through functional integration models. The social aspects, recognized as complex, appear as the most recent aspect, where answers are sought in a new Web, called social Web.Section I Semantic Web Components and Enabling Technologies
Semantic Approach to Knowledge Representation and Processing
Challenges on Semantic Web Services
A Service Oriented Ontological Framework for the Semantic Validation of Web Accessibility
Semantic Web Technologies in the Service of Personalization Tools
Querying Web Accessibility Knowledge from Web Graphs
Ontology Evolution: A Case Study on Semantic Technology in the Media Domain
Attempting to Model Sense Division for Word Sense Disambiguation
Association between Web Semantics and Geographical Locations: Evaluate Internet Information Consistency for Marketing Research
Visualization in Support of Social Networking on the Web
Tracing the Many Translations of a Web-Based IT Artefact
Semantic Annotation of Objects
Web Services Automation
Semantic Web Services: Towards an Appropriate Solution to Application Integration
Semantic Visualization to Support Knowledge Discovery in Multi-Relational Service Communities
Knowledge Protocols
Multi-Agent Systems for Semantic Web Services Composition
Section II Social Semantic Web
On the Social Shaping of the Semantic Web
Social/Human Dimensions of Web Services: Communication Errors and Cultural Aspects. The Case of VRL-KCiP NoE
Socio-Technical Challenges of Semantic Web: A Culturally Exclusive Proposition?
Social Networks in Information Systems: Tools and Services
The Generative Potential of Appreciative Inquiry as an Essential Social Dimension of the Semantic Web
Online Virtual Communities as a New Form of Social Relations: Elements for the Analysis
E-Learning and Solidarity: The Power of Forums
Section III Challenges, Opportunities, and Impact
Applying an Organizational Uncertainty Principle: Semantic Web-Based Metrics
Security in Semantic Interoperation
Semantic Discovery of Services in Democratized Grids
Semantic Web and Adaptivity: Towards a New Model
Semantic Technologies and Web Services: A Primer on Legal Issues
The Influences and Impacts of Societal Factors on the Adoption of Web Services
The Geospatial Semantic Web: What are its Implications for Geospatial Information Users?
Enabling Distributed Cognitive Collaborations on the Semantic Web
Social Impact of Collaborative Services to Maintain Electronic Business Relationship
The Semantic Web in Tourism
Cross-Language Information Retrieval on the Web
CRISS: A Collaborative Route Information Sharing System for Visually Impaired Travelers
Section IV Applications and Current Developments
Modeling Objects of Industrial Applications
The Impacts of Semantic Technologies on Industrial Systems
Towards Process Mediation in Semantic Service Oriented Architecture (SSOA)
Social Networks Applied to E-Gov: An Architecture for Semantic Services
Ontologies and Law: A Practical Case of the Creation of Ontology for Copyright Law Domain
Technology Roadmap for Living Labs
Technologies to Support the Market of Resources as an Infrastructure for Agile/Virtual Enterprise Integration
KC-PLM: Knowledge Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management
PolyOrBAC: An Access Control Model for Inter-Organizational Web Services
Development and Implementation of E-Government Services in Turkey: Towards a More Citizen-Oriented Public Administration System
Technical Outline of a W3 Spatial (Decision Support) Prototype