Michael Mann (1997 [1984], p. 60) wrote, “The state is undeniably a messy concept,” but in the years since he made this observation, little seems to have been done to clean it up. This dissertation seeks to use ontology-based methods to answer three major research questions conc…
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In order to compete with the global giants, enterprises are concentrating on their core competencies and collaborating with organizations that compliment their skills and core activities. The current trend is to develop temporary alliances of independent enterprises, in which co…
The proliferation and ubiquity of SemanticWeb technologies have transformed the way computer society reshapes its technology through knowledge integration, knowledge reuse and knowledge sharing. Ontology, one of the Semantic Web components, is a way to represent domain knowledge…
The Social Web or ‘Web 2.0’ is focused on the interaction and collaboration between web sites users. It is credited for the existence of tagging systems, amongst other things such as blogs and Wikis. Tagging systems like YouTube and Flickr offer their users the simplicity and fr…
Current home networks typically involve two or more machines sharing network resources. The vision for the home network has grown from a simple computer network, to every day appliances embedded with network capabilities. In this environment devices and services within the home …
The Semantic Web is the vision of the future Web. Its aim is to enable machines to process Web documents in a way that makes it possible for the computer software to "understand" the meaning of the document contents. Each document on the Semantic Web is to be enriched with meta-…
The Social Web, or Web 2.0, has recently gained popularity because of its low cost and ease of use. Social tagging sites (e.g. Flickr and YouTube) offer new principles for end-users to publish and classify their content (data). Tagging systems contain free-keywords (tags) genera…
Database integration is one of the research areas that have gained a lot of attention from researcher. It has the goal of representing the data from different database sources in one unified form. To reach database integration we have to face two obstacles. The first one is the …
This thesis provides a detailed description of the research undertaken into the creation of a framework that uses Semantic Web languages to implement a recently developed commonsense reasoning formalism called Discrete Event Calculus (DEC). It aims to show to what extent DEC rea…
There has been an increasing interest in Semantic Web services (SWS) as a proposed solution to facilitate automatic discovery, composition and deployment of existing syntactic Web services. Successful implementation and wider adoption of SWS by research and industry are, however…
A seamless, intuitive search capability for enormous resources and service information available in large-scale grid infrastructures and the vast amount of scientific datasets generated by experiments are critical to ensure effective use of such data and resources by domain spec…
This study presents a lost recension of a homiletic Midrash belonging to the Tanhuma family found in the Cairo Genizah. Five vellum fragments with a total of ten sides of text, all originating from the same early manuscript, containing parts of seven homilies on different sedari…