Download or read book The Adventures of Stardog and Scrappydar written by Dave Lewis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placebo Stardog was, apparently, the greatest agent that SPATOUT ever had. As the Under Director of the secret agency, it was up to him to stop criminals and various other scum from using the universal tube network to perpetrate their foul deeds. In his time with SPATOUT he'd seen it all...or so he thought. But suddenly, thrust upon him by the Supreme Agent, is a former criminal Lucifer Scrappydar, who he must make into a fully-fledged agent, or otherwise send him back to prison. This is the story of their first ten days!

Download or read book Stardog written by Jack Driscoll and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an exciting, cinematic new work by the author of the critically acclaimed Lucky Man, Lucky Woman, Earl Patrick Godfrey walks away from the children on the school bus that he drives for one last sentimental spin in the candy apple red Ranchero 500 he owned in his youth.

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Download or read book The Semantic Web ISWC 2015 written by Marcelo Arenas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 9366 and 9367 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2015, held in Bethlehem, PA, USA, in October 2015. The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier forum for Semantic Web research, where cutting edge scientific results and technological innovations are presented, where problems and solutions are discussed, and where the future of this vision is being developed. It brings together specialists in fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and the social sciences. The papers cover topics such as querying with SPARQL; querying linked data; linked data; ontology-based data access; ontology alignment; reasoning; instance matching, entity resolution and topic generation; RDF data dynamics; ontology extraction and generation; knowledge graphs and scientific data publication; ontology instance alignment; knowledge graphs; data processing, IoT, sensors; archiving and publishing scientific data; I oT and sensors; experiments; evaluation; and empirical studies. Part 1 (LNCS 9366) contains a total of 38 papers which were presented in the research track. They were carefully reviewed and selected from 172 submissions. Part 2 (LNCS 9367) contains 14 papers from the in-use and software track, 8 papers from the datasets and ontologies track, and 7 papers from the empirical studies and experiments track, selected, respectively, from 33, 35, and 23 submissions.

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Download or read book Towards a Knowledge Aware AI written by A. Dimou and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantic systems lie at the heart of modern computing, interlinking with areas as diverse as AI, data science, knowledge discovery and management, big data analytics, e-commerce, enterprise search, technical documentation, document management, business intelligence, enterprise vocabulary management, machine learning, logic programming, content engineering, social computing, and the Semantic Web. This book presents the proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2022, the 18th International Conference on Semantic Systems, held as a hybrid event – live in Vienna, Austria and online – from 12 to 15 September 2022. The SEMANTiCS conference is an annual meeting place for the professionals and researchers who make semantic computing work, who understand its benefits and encounter its limitations, and is attended by information managers, IT architects, software engineers, and researchers from organizations ranging from research facilities and NPOs, through public administrations to the largest companies in the world. The theme and subtitle of the 2022 conference was Towards A Knowledge-Aware AI, and the book contains 15 papers, selected on the basis of quality, impact and scientific merit following a rigorous review process which resulted in an acceptance rate of 29%. The book is divided into four chapters: semantics in data quality, standards and protection; representation learning and reasoning for downstream AI tasks; ontology development; and learning over complementary knowledge. Providing an overview of emerging trends and topics in the wide area of semantic computing, the book will be of interest to anyone involved in the development and deployment of computer technology and AI systems.

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Download or read book The Semantic Web ISWC 2018 written by Denny Vrandečić and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 11136 and 11137 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2018, held in Monterey, USA, in October 2018. The ISWC conference is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. The total of 62 full papers included in this volume was selected from 250 submissions. The conference is organized in three tracks: for the Research Track 39 full papers were selected from 164 submissions. The Resource Track contains 17 full papers, selected from 55 submissions; and the In-Use track features 6 full papers which were selected from 31 submissions to this track.

Download or read book The Semantic Web ISWC 2013 written by Harith Alani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-volume set LNCS 8218 and 8219 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2013, held in Sydney, Australia, in October 2013. The International Semantic Web Conference is the premier forum for Semantic Web research, where cutting edge scientific results and technological innovations are presented, where problems and solutions are discussed, and where the future of this vision is being developed. It brings together specialists in fields such as artificial intelligence, databases, social networks, distributed computing, Web engineering, information systems, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and the social sciences. Part 1 (LNCS 8218) contains a total of 45 papers which were presented in the research track. They were carefully reviewed and selected from 210 submissions. Part 2 (LNCS 8219) contains 16 papers from the in-use track which were accepted from 90 submissions. In addition, it presents 10 contributions to the evaluations and experiments track and 5 papers of the doctoral consortium.

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Download or read book Data Science with Semantic Technologies written by Archana Patel and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As data is an important asset for any organization, it is essential to apply semantic technologies in data science to fulfill the need of any organization. This first volume of a two-volume handbook set provides a roadmap for new trends and future developments of data science with semantic technologies. Data Science with Semantic Technologies: New Trends and Future Developments highlights how data science enables the user to create intelligence through these technologies. In addition, this book offers the answers to various questions such as: Can semantic technologies facilitate data science? Which type of data science problems can be tackled by semantic technologies? How can data scientists benefit from these technologies? What is the role of semantic technologies in data science? What is the current progress and future of data science with semantic technologies? Which types of problems require the immediate attention of the researchers? What should be the vision 2030 for data science? This volume can serve as an important guide toward applications of data science with semantic technologies for the upcoming generation and, thus, it is a unique resource for scholars, researchers, professionals, and practitioners in this field.

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Download or read book Web Engineering written by Irene Garrigós and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2023, held in Alicante, Spain, during June 6-9, 2023. The 18 revised full papers and 7 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: architecting the web in the cloud continuum; machine learning for web engineering; IoT and WoT engineering; user privacy engineering; user behaviour characterization; user centered technologies; tools and techniques for advanced web engineering; and web engineering practices and experiences.