Foundations of fuzzy logic and semantic web languages (Q2855951)

In Semantic Web research vagueness and fuzziness play an important role. During the past decade numerous investigations, both theoretical and application oriented ones, focusing on these issues were performed. The present book is the first one to cover the most important results of these investigations.NEWLINENEWLINEThe book under review is meant mainly for experts in fuzzy logics to get a comprehensive view of fuzzy Semantic Web languages on the one hand, and other experts on computer science to learn the fundamentals of Semantic Web languages on the other. The book contains also an introduction to basic principles of mathematical fuzzy logic. Moreover, there is a bibliography of all the important publications in the area published untill 2012. The book is composed of two parts, and it contains additional appendices and a bibliography.NEWLINENEWLINEThe first chapter discusses the usefulness of the fuzzy logic approach in Semantic Web languages. Part 1, entitled Semantic Web languages basics, has four chapters focusing on the resource description language RDF and RDF schema, the Web ontology language OWL, rule languages and query languages for SWL-based knowledge bases.NEWLINENEWLINEThe second part entitled Fuzzy logics and Semantic Web languages, has, after an introductory chapter, four chapters concentrating on the introduction of fuzzy sets and mathematical fuzzy logic basics, fuzzy versions of resource description languages RDF and RDFS, the fuzzy Web ontology language and fuzzy rule languages.NEWLINENEWLINEAt the end there are eight appendices. The book contains 320 pages, a 44 page long bibliography and an index.