Purpose – Aims to investigate the way that the semantic web is being used to represent and process social network information. Design/methodology/approach – The Swoogle semantic web search engine was used to construct several large data sets of Resource Description Framework (RDF) documents...

Uncertain facts and inexact rules can be represented andprocessed in standard Prolog through meta-interpretation. Thisrequires the specification of appropriate parsers and beliefcalculi. We present a meta-interpreter that takes a rule-basedbelief calculus as an external variable. The...

One of the key challenges in designing expert systems is a credible representationof uncertainty and partial belief. During the past decade, a number ofrule-based belief languages were proposed and implemented in applied systems.Due to their quasi-probabilistic nature, the external validity of...

Online social networking systems are a phenomenon that has grown exponentially over the past few years. These systems provide platforms for people to easily share information, especially about themselves and about their interests. With the recent emergence of geolocation technologies, social...

Electronic protoyping is becoming a part of every scientific inquiry and product design, and is the focus of research in the new scientific field of Computational Science and Engineering. The new grand challenge here is the rapid prototyping of manufactured artifacts and the rapid solution to...

As emerging trends and research threads surface in the area of e-government, academicians, practitioners, and students face the challenge of keeping up-to-date with new and innovative practices. This book provides a complete synopsis of the latest technologies in information policy, security,...