The rapid advancement of semantic web technologies, along with the fact that they are at various levels of maturity, has left many practitioners confused about the current state of these technologies. Focusing on the most mature technologies, Applied Semantic Web Technologies integrates theory with case studies to illustrate the history, current st

INTRODUCTION. Applied Semantic Web Technologies. ONTOLOGIES. Fundamentals and Languages. Toward Semantic Interoperability between Information Systems. AlViz: A Tool for Ontology Alignment Utilizing Information Visualization Techniques. SRS: A Hybrid Ontology Mediation and Mapping Approach. ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING AND EVALUATION. An Ontology Engineering Tool for Enterprise 3.0. Learning of Social Ontologies in WWW. Relation Extraction for Semantic Web with Taxonomic Sequential Patterns. Data-Driven Evaluation of Ontologies Using Machine Learning Algorithms. Automatic Evaluation of Search Ontologies in the Entertainment Domain Using Natural Language Processing. SEMANTIC APPLICATIONS. Adding Semantics to Decision Tables. Semantic Sentiment Analyses Based on Reputations of Web Information Sources. Semantics and Search. Toward Semantics-Based Service Composition in Transport Logistics. Ontology-Driven Business Process Intelligence. Semantics for Energy Efficiency in Smart Home Environments.