Author Description

Exploring the Web presents a unique, comprehensible treatment of the Web, from its foundations to cutting-edge technologies and applications. The work goes beyond a major web development by demonstrating how the Semantic Web facilitates joint interaction between human beings and machines. In a well-written, user-friendly, and systematic exposition, motivated by numerous easy-to-understand diagrams and hands-on examples, the four parts of the book examine the principles underlying web design, the technologies that support its operations, and a host of web applications. Starting with web fundamentals and XML explained in terms of objects and processes, the reader is then introduced to Web Services and its supporting standards. Later chapters are devoted to the Semantic Web: Resource Description Language (RDF), Web Ontology Language, (OWL), and the Visual Semantic Web (ViSWeb). The concluding chapters treat an array of applications, interactively intertwining theory and practice. Additional Features: Provides a comprehensive view of the Web using the expressive power of Object-Process Methodology (OPM) and its freely downloadable tool from www.ObjectProcess.org Enables readers to construct intuitive diagrams that translate to natural language in real time Covers such applications as e-commerce, biotechnology, bioinformatics, medicine, and e-government Contains a comprehensive bibliography and index Offers a wealth of supplementary enhancements and resources at the author’s website: http://ie.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/dori.phtml This work targets researchers and professionals working in web areas that affect software engineering, systems architecture, analysis and design methods, and modeling and simulation, making the book relevant to developers of various domains. It is also designed www.ObjectProcess.org for advanced undergraduates and graduates in courses such as Web Services, Web technologies, Semantic Web, Analysis and Design of Web-based Systems, and Modeling Web