Invasive Software Composition Operators for the Semantic Web

2006 book

Vdm Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, ISBN 978-3836471053

Descriptions of data in the Semantic Web easily grow larger and more complex than the descriptions of traditional web pages and are thus more difficult to handle. In the traditional web, data is enriched with formatting information to be presented to the human reader. The Semantic Web calls for additional machine-readable semantic descriptions to enable computational agents to support a user in acquiring the desired data from the mass of available information. This poses new challenges to data maintainers who have to maintain an overview of complex data descriptions. They should be supported by tools to structure such complex sets of data in the most appropriate way for them and the data at hand…