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)

• Fundamentals.- Middleware.- Ontologies.- Towards Semantic Management.- Design of a Management Ontology.- Analysis of Existing Ontologies.- The Appropriate Foundational Ontology.- An Ontological Formalization of Software Components and Web Services.- Realization of Semantic Management.- Design of an Ontology-Based Application Server.- Implementation.- Applying the Management Ontology.- Finale.- Related Work.- Conclusion & Outlook.

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)

• Fundamentals.- Middleware.- Ontologies.- Towards Semantic Management.- Design of a Management Ontology.- Analysis of Existing Ontologies.- The Appropriate Foundational Ontology.- An Ontological Formalization of Software Components and Web Services.- Realization of Semantic Management.- Design of an Ontology-Based Application Server.- Implementation.- Applying the Management Ontology.- Finale.- Related Work.- Conclusion & Outlook.

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)

• Fundamentals.- Middleware.- Ontologies.- Towards Semantic Management.- Design of a Management Ontology.- Analysis of Existing Ontologies.- The Appropriate Foundational Ontology.- An Ontological Formalization of Software Components and Web Services.- Realization of Semantic Management.- Design of an Ontology-Based Application Server.- Implementation.- Applying the Management Ontology.- Finale.- Related Work.- Conclusion & Outlook.