First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These machine-interpretable descriptions allow more intelligent software systems to be written, automating the analysis and exploitation of web-based information.

Software agents will be able to create "automatically" new services from already published services, with potentially huge implications for models of e-Business.

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