• Provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art techniques and popularly defined standards
• Contains detailed end of chapter summaries and suggested further reading
• End of chapter exercises reinforce the text
• Numerous small programming examples are provided
• Clear, informative diagrams illustrate the text throughout

Readership: Final-year undergraduate and graduate students in Mathematics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Logic with a reasonable degree of programming and Web experience.

Christopher Walton, Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Dr David Robertson (Director, CISA, The University of Edinburgh): Foreword
1: The Semantic Web
2: Web Knowledge
3: Reactive Agents
4: Practical Reasoning and Deductive Agents
5: Reasoning on the Web
6: Agent Communication
7: Semantic Web Services
8: Conclusions
Index