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Knowledge Representation, Ontologies, and the Semantic Web

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A unified representation for web data and web resources, is absolutely necessary in nowdays large scale Internet data management systems. This representation will allow for the machines to meaningfully process the available information and provide semantically correct answers to imposed queries. Ontologies are expected to play an important role towards this direction of web technology which defines the so called, Semantic Web. The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of the Knowledge Representation (KR) techniques and languages that can be used as standards in the Semantic Web.

This work is supported by the bilateral research collaboration programme Platon between Greece and France, 2002–2004 financed by the French and Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology, Ministry of Development.

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  1. Informatics Dpt., Aristotle University, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Evimaria Terzi & Athena Vakali

  2. Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes d’Information, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69622, Villeurbanne, France

    Mohand-Saïd Hacid

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  1. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou  & Maria E. Orlowska  & 

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

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Terzi, E., Vakali, A., Hacid, MS. (2003). Knowledge Representation, Ontologies, and the Semantic Web. In: Zhou, X., Orlowska, M.E., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2642. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36901-5_39

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