As communication devices and the Internet become ubiquitous the world continues its progres-sion toward a knowledge-based society in which what you know equals the degree of your success. Knowledge sharing breaks down now time and distance barriers and makes people work in virtual of-fices and...

SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial automation and modularity. It builds upon the situated courteous logic programs knowledge representation in RuleML, the...

Semantic web technologies are considered to be the next wave for web technologies related with rich internet web applications, content management, and document and information management. The most promising semantic web applications for business domain are considered to be the semantic web...

This paper treats with examples the practical use of Semantic Web technologies for describing business data. The main problems that the present paper addresses are related to identifying the main activities/ functions of an organization that can be represented with Semantic Web technologies. We...

The present paper treats an important aspect which concerns semantic web databases. Our research motivation is given by the problems that semantic web databases raise for the quality characteristic. We try to identify which are the main criteria to take into consideration when building a...

This paper tries to treat organizational semantic web based portals. The first part of the paper focuses on concepts regarding semantic web based portals. After discussing some concepts we treat the basic functionalities that a semantic web based portal must have and we finish by presenting...

This paper tries to identify some methodological consideration in building business ontologies for decision support. We treat the problems that business domain poses for knowledge engineers. We also discuss the main semantic web technologies involved in developing ontologies. We consider also...

The Web of Data (WoD) is an Internet-based network of data resources and their relations. It has recently taken flight and combines over a hundred interlinked data sources with more than 15 billion edges. A consequence of this recent success is that a paradigm shift has taken place: up to now...

This paper introduces some technologies that are fit for an architecture of digital democracy or E-democracy. It aims at proposing an architectural style emerged from tested and validated approaches, without relying on some radical innovation. Firstly, we propose an input-system-output model of...