Functional Approach in Internet-Based Applications: Enabling the Semantic Web, E-Business, Web Services and Agent-Based Knowledge Management

The functional approach to computing has an important role in enabling the Internet-based applications such as the Semantic Web, e-business, web services, and agents for managing the evolving distributed knowledge space. This chapter examines the research issues and trends in these areas, and focuses on how the Functional Data Model and a functional approach can contribute to solving some of the outstanding problems. Specifically, the chapter addresses the role of ontologies and the meta-tagging and indexing of resources; the role of search technologies; the Semantic Web and web services; intelligent agents; and knowledge management.

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