The Semantic Web: Real World Applications from Industry provides a series of case studies which give examples of real benefits to be derived from the adoption of semantic web based ontologies in real world situations, such as telecommunication, B2B integration, tourism, education and more.

Semantic Web Services: Theory, Tools and Applications is a very good book that covers Semantic Web in general and, also, explains how to apply semantics to Web services. Examples of interesting chapters include The Syntactic and the Semantic Web, Logics for the Semantic Web, Ontological Engineering: what are ontologies and how can we build them, Editing Tools for Ontology Construction, Web Ontology Language, and Reasoning in the Semantic Web.

Semantic Web Services, Processes and Applications is one of the few books being adopted by several courses worldwide. Universities that have adopted this book include the University of Georgia (USA), the University of Madeira (Portugal), and the University of Stuttgart (Germany).

Semantic Web Engineering in the Knowledge Society The main objective of the book is to lay the foundations for understanding the technologies behind the Semantic Web. Organizations are striving for literature that guides them in the development of end-to-end applications and systems that use semantics. While the industry is willing to use semantics, the academia has not yet shown how to systematically employ Semantic Web technologies to deploy a new breed of systems. The book aims to provide relevant theories, tools, and methodologies to develop semantic applications. It is written for students and professionals who want to improve their understanding of how semantics and ontologies can be used inside organizations. It also aims at studying the application of semantics to each of the steps in the semantic applications lifecycle and how semantics can help address critical issues in reuse, integration, and interoperability.

Handbook of Research on Business Process Modeling The goal of this handbook is to contribute to the establishment of the Business Process Modeling discipline. It will provide the current trends (principles, techniques, and technologies) in the field. In the last 10 years, there has been an explosion in the number of theories, technologies, standards, and tools providing business process support. At the same time, process support has taken an increasingly important role within information systems development (process-aware systems). The conjunction of these factors has created a need among practitioners (e.g., researchers, system analysts, IT consultants, business analysts, and chief process officers) for a book providing a broad overview of this promising field from an academic and industrial perspective. To achieve this goal, this handbook will bring together in one place contributions from leading experts, thereby guaranteeing a broad and diverse base of knowledge and expertise. The need for a comprehensive and authoritative book on Research on Business Process Modeling is latent among researchers from academia and industry and from workflow and BPM vendors. Stakeholders are often overloaded with a massive amount of BPM data available on the Web, but with no coherent 360? view of the field. When referring to general theory, techniques, and technologies, publications refer to an array of survey articles, with no reference standing out as an agreed-upon source of common ground.

Gestão de Workflows: Modelos, métodos e sistemas (tradução) Este livro examina a gestão de processos de negócio com o auxílio de tecnologias de informação. Fornece uma sólida base para a Reengenharia de Processos de Negócio (Business Process Re-engineering - BPR) numa perspectiva claramente orientada ás tecnologias de informação. Com o aparecimento de software genérico para a gestão de processos de negócio sob a forma de sistemas de gestão de workflow (Workflow Management System - WFMS) surgiu a necessidade de um livro que descrevesse os fundamentos teóricos e práticos da aplicação de tecnologia de workflow. A base teórica para a modelação de processos de negócio é fornecida pelas redes de Petri de alto nível por serem um formalismo bem estabelecido e cuja popularidade cresceu rapidamente nos últimos anos. Para os sistemas de workflow, esta base teórica possui o mesmo valor que um modelo relacional para um sistema de base de dados. Este livro tem por alvo estudantes de tecnologias de informação, engenheiros industriais e todos aqueles que estão profissionalmente envolvidos na implementação de BPR usando tecnologia de workflow.

Programação de Sistemas Distribuídos em Java (In Portuguese) O proposito deste livro é apresentar os conceitos tecnológicos fundamentais presentes no desenvolvimento de sistemas distribuídos em Java, assim como as principais plataformas disponíveis. Este livro descreve as tecnologias que foram desenvolvidas a partir dos anos 90 para a construção de sistemas distribuídos. Neste sentido, descrevemos e ilustramos como podem ser usados os sockets e o CORBA para desenhar e implementar sistemas distribuídos. Abordamos também soluções mais recentes tal como o RMI e os Web services. Este livro constitui um compêndio essencial e indispensável para qualquer aluno de Licenciatura ou Mestrado em Engenharia Informática e profissionais envolvidos com a projecção de sistemas distribuídos.

• 1 - Evolucaoo dos Sistemas Computacionais
• 2 - Redes de Dados
• 3 - Arquitecturas de Sistemas Distribuídos
• 4 - O Sistema de Nomes DNS
• 5 - Programao com Sockets
• 6 - CORBA
• 7 - Java Remote Method Invocation
• 8 - Web Services