The emergence of Web technologies for the distribution of an immense amount of data and knowledge has given rise to the need for supportive frameworks for knowledge management. Semantic Web technologies aim at providing shared semantic spaces for Web contents, such that people, applications and communities can use a common platform to share information.
Canadian Semantic Web: Technologies and Applications aims at contributing to the advancement of the Semantic Web by providing the most recent significant research on Semantic Web theory, techniques and applications in academia, industry and government in Canada and all over the world. It also enlightens possible Semantic Web research directions in future by reporting some works in-progress that present on-going research on principles and applications of the SemanticWeb, while their implementation or deployment may have not been completed.
This book consists of ten chapters. The chapters are extended versions of a selected set of papers from the second Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS 2009) and the twenty-first international Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2009). CSWWS 2009 was held in Kelowna, British Columbia in May 2009. Since many of the challenging aspects of the research problems tackled in the Semantic Web area fall in the realm of Artificial Intelligence or employ of AI techniques, CSWWS 2009 was organized in association with the 22nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. SEKE 2009 was held in Boston, July 2009, aiming at bridging the two domains of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering together. Hence, the content of this book covers the theory and applications of SemanticWeb techniques from both important perspectives of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering.