文档介绍：Advanced Information and Knowlegde Processing
Heiner Stuckenschmidt · Frank van Harmelen
Information
Sharing on the
Semantic Web
With 51 Figures and 13 Tables
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Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
de Boelelaan 1081a
1081HV Amsterdam
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Frank van Harmelen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
de Boelelaan 1081a
1081HV Amsterdam
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ISBN 3-540-20594-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
About the book
The ess of the information society
The rapid progress of the “information society” in the past decade has been
made possible by the removal of many technical barriers. Producing, storing,
and transporting infor