Rudi Studer is Full Professor in Applied Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His research interests include knowledge management, Semantic Web technologies and applications, ontology management, data and text mining, service-oriented architectures, peer-to-peer systems, and Semantic Grid. Rudi Studer is also director in the research department Information Process Engineering at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe and one of the presidents of the FZI Research Center as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH that develops semantic applications. He is engaged in various national and international cooperation projects being funded by e.g. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the European Commission, the German Ministry of Education and Research, and industry. He is president of the Semantic Web Science Association and Editor-in-chief of the journal Web Semantics: Science, Services, and Agents on the World Wide Web.

• Web Services Technology.- Towards Service-Oriented Architectures.- Architecture and Standardisation of Web Services.- Semantic Web Technology.- Knowledge Representation and Ontologies.- Ontology Development.- Semantic Annotation of Resources in the Semantic Web.- Semantic Web Services.- Goals and Vision.- Description.- Discovery.- Composition.- Mediation.- Tools and Use Cases.- Tools for Semantic Web Services.- Ontology-Based Change Management in an eGovernment Application Scenario.- An eGovernment Case Study.- An eHealth Case Study.

Rudi Studer is Full Professor in Applied Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His research interests include knowledge management, Semantic Web technologies and applications, ontology management, data and text mining, service-oriented architectures, peer-to-peer systems, and Semantic Grid. Rudi Studer is also director in the research department Information Process Engineering at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe and one of the presidents of the FZI Research Center as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH that develops semantic applications. He is engaged in various national and international cooperation projects being funded by e.g. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the European Commission, the German Ministry of Education and Research, and industry. He is president of the Semantic Web Science Association and Editor-in-chief of the journal Web Semantics: Science, Services, and Agents on the World Wide Web.

• Web Services Technology.- Towards Service-Oriented Architectures.- Architecture and Standardisation of Web Services.- Semantic Web Technology.- Knowledge Representation and Ontologies.- Ontology Development.- Semantic Annotation of Resources in the Semantic Web.- Semantic Web Services.- Goals and Vision.- Description.- Discovery.- Composition.- Mediation.- Tools and Use Cases.- Tools for Semantic Web Services.- Ontology-Based Change Management in an eGovernment Application Scenario.- An eGovernment Case Study.- An eHealth Case Study.

Rudi Studer is Full Professor in Applied Informatics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His research interests include knowledge management, Semantic Web technologies and applications, ontology management, data and text mining, service-oriented architectures, peer-to-peer systems, and Semantic Grid. Rudi Studer is also director in the research department Information Process Engineering at the FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe and one of the presidents of the FZI Research Center as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH that develops semantic applications. He is engaged in various national and international cooperation projects being funded by e.g. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the European Commission, the German Ministry of Education and Research, and industry. He is president of the Semantic Web Science Association and Editor-in-chief of the journal Web Semantics: Science, Services, and Agents on the World Wide Web.

• Web Services Technology.- Towards Service-Oriented Architectures.- Architecture and Standardisation of Web Services.- Semantic Web Technology.- Knowledge Representation and Ontologies.- Ontology Development.- Semantic Annotation of Resources in the Semantic Web.- Semantic Web Services.- Goals and Vision.- Description.- Discovery.- Composition.- Mediation.- Tools and Use Cases.- Tools for Semantic Web Services.- Ontology-Based Change Management in an eGovernment Application Scenario.- An eGovernment Case Study.- An eHealth Case Study.