Developing Semantic Web Services

H. Peter Alesso is a technology Innovator with twenty years research experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). As Engineering Group Leader at LLNL, he has led a team of physicists, computer scientists and engineers in a wide range of successful software development research projects. He earned an M.S. and an advanced Engineering Degree from M.I.T. and has published several software titles as well as numerous scientific journal and conference articles. H. Peter Alesso is the author of e-Video: Producing Internet Video as Broadband Technologies Converge, Addison-Wesley, July 2000, and co-author of The intelligent Wireless Web, Addison Wesley, 2001. Craig Smith, PhD. is an engineer with 30 years experience in research and development, and application of advanced technologies. He is currently employed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and serves as the Lawrence Livermore Chair Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He is responsible for several cutting edge technology development projects and he is a collaborator on several international research initiatives. His areas of interest include sensors, robotics and automated systems: information technology applications; and future energy systems. He has published numerous scientific journal and conference articles on advanced engineering topics. Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1975.

• Preface -- The Organization of this Book -- Who This Book is For -- Associated Resources -- List of Acronyms -- Part One The World Wide Web -- Chapter-1. The World Wide Web -- Chapter-2. Markup Languages -- Chapter-3. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) -- Chapter-4. extensible Markup Language (XML) -- Chapter-5. Web Services -- Part Two The Semantic Web -- Chapter-6. Developing Semantic Web Services -- Chapter-7. Resource Description Framework (RDF) -- Chapter-8. Web Ontology Language (OWL) -- Chapter-9. Machine Intelligence -- Chapter-10. Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S) -- Part Three Developing Semantic Web Services -- Chapter-11. OWL-S Example: Congo, owl -- Chapter-12. Design and Analysis -- Chapter-13. Semantic Tools -- Chapter-14. Semantic Web Author -- Chapter-15. Semantic Search -- Chapter-16. Challenges and Opportunities -- Bibliography -- Part Three Developing Semantic Web Services -- Appendix A. RDF Specification -- Appendix B. Web Ontology Language -- Appendix C. Graphical Models of the Web -- Glossary -- Index.

" ""An excellent resource book for web developers."" -Vijay Kumar, E-Streams, August 2005""Alesso and Smith (both, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) have provided a wonderful introduction to semantic Web development that goes far beyond semantic Web services. With a clear, very readable style, they tell the reasons for creating a semantic Web, the personalities involved, and the primary technologies . . . that form the structures needed for these services. "" -H. J. Bender, CHOICE Magazine Magazine, May 2005""Reflecting their expertise arising from many years of extended research experience . . . the coauthors have succeeded in producing a seminal, essential, professional-level instruction manual and reference work."" -Paul T. Vogel, Reviewers' Bookwatch, February 2005"