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- Introduces the usage of semantic technologies
- Provides an introduction to the basics of middleware technology and a discussion of ontologies, to help readers who are not familiar with the area
- Includes service oriented architectures (SOA) which are considered the basis of next generation distributed software systems
- Preface by Amit P. Sheth, University of Georgia, USA
- Foreword by Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Semantic Web and Beyond (ADSW, volume 1)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Fundamentals
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Design of a Management Ontology
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Realization of Semantic Management
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Finale
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About this book
Current middleware solutions, e.g., application servers and Web services, are very complex software products that are hard to tame because of intricacies of distributed systems. Their functionalities have mostly been developed and managed with the help of administration tools and corresponding configuration files, recently in XML. Though this constitutes flexibility for developing and administrating a distributed application, the conceptual model underlying the different configurations is only implicit.
To remedy such problems, Semantic Management of Middleware contributes an ontology-based approach to support the development and administration of middleware-based applications. The ontology is an explicit conceptual model with formal logic-based semantics. Its descriptions may therefore be queried, may foresight required actions, or may be checked to avoid inconsistent system configurations.
This book builds a rigorous approach towards giving the declarative descriptions of components and services a well-defined meaning by specifying ontological foundations and by showing how such foundations may be realized in practical, up-and-running systems.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Middleware can largely ease the heterogeneity and increasing complexity of the distributed information systems. … Realising this central issue, this book deals with the semantic aspect of middleware … . The uniqueness of the book is the presentation of taxonomies of various ontologies … . The book has addressed the important issues on weaving semantic web. This reader is useful to students, researchers and teachers to understand ontologies for middleware and to developers and administrators who like to apply semantics to middleware." (Pit. Pichappan, Journal of Digital Information Management, Vol. 4 (2), June, 2006)
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Descriptions Methods, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Daniel Oberle
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Semantic Management of Middleware
Authors: Daniel Oberle
Series Title: Semantic Web and Beyond
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27631-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-27630-4Published: 04 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3905-0Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-27631-1Published: 28 May 2006
Series ISSN: 1559-7474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 268
Topics: Software Engineering, Programming Techniques, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Systems and Communication Service, Multimedia Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence