Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing

Information systems and intelligent knowledge processing are playing an increasing role in business, science and technology. Recently, advanced information systems have evolved to facilitate to co-evolution of human and information networks within communities. These advanced information systems use various paradigms including artificial intelligence, knowledge management, and bioinformatics, as well as conventional information processing paradigms.

This research-oriented series publishes books on new designs and applications of advanced information and knowledge processing concepts. Books in the series have a strong focus on information processing combined with, or extended by, new results from adjacent sciences.

The future of the World Wide Web depends on its ability to understand and automatically process content to enable computers and people to work in cooperation. Now more than ever, new advanced techniques and intelligent approaches are required to transform the Web into a universal reasoning and semantic-driven computing machine. The Web intelligence discipline attempts to deal with this challenge by exploiting information technologies and artificial intelligence approaches to design the next generation of web-empowered systems and future Internet services. 'The Emergent Web Intelligence: Advanced Semantic Technologies' book provides valuable references and cutting-edge technologies for anyone interested in exploring how semantic techniques and technologies can bridge the gap between users and applications on the Web.

This book presents cutting-edge research in the field of semantic technologies. Its seventeen chapters are arranged into four parts and identify interdisciplinary challenges in the areas of the Semantic Web, artificial intelligence, and knowledge-based services. The chapters provide analysis and insight into semantic Web techniques and are authored by reputable scientists in the field. All articles are self-contained to provide the greatest reading flexibility and aim to serve as a reference for researchers in the Semantic Web community.