Heiner Stuckenschmidt – författare

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2019, held in Kassel, Germany, in September 2019.

This book constitutes the revised proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web) held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015.

The 10 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on recommender systems, multimedia recommendation, social and semantic web; and process management. 

This book constitutes revised proceedings of the 17th International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2016, in conjunction with DEXA. The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: recommender systems; data management and data analysis; and business processes, Web services and cloud computing.

The large-scale and almost ubiquitous availability of information has become as much of a curse as it is a blessing. The more information is available, the harder it is to locate any particular piece of it. And even when it has been successfully found, it is even harder still to usefully combine it with other information we may already possess.

It is commonly understood that this problem of information sharing can only be solved by giving computers better access to the semantics of the information. While it has been recognized that ontologies play a crucial role in solving the open problems, most approaches rely on the existence of well-established data structures. To overcome these shortcomings, Stuckenschmidt and van Harmelen describe ontology-based approaches for resolving semantic heterogeneity in weakly structured environments, in particular the World Wide Web. Addressing problems like missing conceptual models, unclear system boundaries, and heterogeneous representations, they design a framework for ontology-based information sharing in weakly structured environments like the Semantic Web.

For researchers and students in areas related to the Semantic Web, the authors provide not only a comprehensive overview of the State of the art, but also present in detail recent research in areas like ontology design for information integration, metadata generation and management, and representation and management of distributed ontologies. For professionals in areas such as e-commerce and knowledge management, the book provides decision support on the use of novel technologies, information about potential problems, and guidelines for the successful application of existing technologies.

Just like the industrial society of the last century depended on natural resources, today’s society depends on information and its exchange.

Staab and Stuckenschmidt structured the selected contributions into four parts: Part I, "Data Storage and Access", prepares the semantic foundation, i.e. data modelling and querying in a flexible and yet scalable manner. These foundations allow for dealing with the organization of information at the individual peers. Part II, "Querying the Network", considers the routing of queries, as well as continuous queries and personalized queries under the conditions of the permanently changing topological structure of a peer-to-peer network. Part III, "Semantic Integration", deals with the mapping of heterogeneous data representations. Finally Part IV, "Methodology and Systems", reports experiences from case studies and sample applications.

The overall result is a state-of-the-art description of the potential of Semantic Web and peer-to-peer technologies for information sharing and knowledge management when applied jointly.

Ontologien haben durch die aktuellen Entwicklungen des Semantic Web große Beachtung erfahren, da jetzt Technologien bereitgestellt werden, die eine Verwendung von Ontologien in Informationssystemen ermöglichen. Beginnend mit den grundlegenden Konzepten und Ideen von Ontologien, die der Philosophie und Linguistik entstammen, stellt das Buch den aktuellen Stand der Technik im Bereich unterstützender Technologien aus der Semantic Web Forschung dar und zeigt vielversprechende Anwendungsbiete auf.

Das Buch richtet sich an alle Leser, die ein grundlegendes Interesse an Ontologien als Teil moderner Informationstechnologien haben und sich einen Überblick und schnellen Einstieg in das Gebiet verschaffen wollen.

Ontologien haben durch die aktuellen Entwicklungen des Semantic Web große Beachtung erfahren, da jetzt Technologien bereitgestellt werden, die eine Verwendung von Ontologien in Informationssystemen ermöglichen. Beginnend mit den grundlegenden Konzepten und Ideen von Ontologien, die der Philosophie und Linguistik entstammen, stellt das Buch den aktuellen Stand der Technik im Bereich unterstützender Technologien aus der Semantic Web Forschung dar und zeigt vielversprechende Anwendungsbiete auf.

Das Buch richtet sich an alle Leser, die ein grundlegendes Interesse an Ontologien als Teil moderner Informationstechnologien haben und sich einen Überblick und schnellen Einstieg in das Gebiet verschaffen wollen.