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<strong>the</strong> conventional <strong>Web</strong>, and <strong>the</strong> emerging query languages for <strong>the</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong>.<br />
They <strong>of</strong>fer a reconsideration <strong>of</strong> design principles for <strong>Web</strong> and <strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong> query<br />
languages. They present features <strong>of</strong> “versatile query languages that can cope up<br />
markups and representations used for traditional <strong>Web</strong> and <strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong>. One key<br />
aspect <strong>the</strong>y argue for is <strong>the</strong> support for incomplete data specifications (“incomplete<br />
queries”) and incomplete data selections (“incomplete answers”).<br />
Section.IV:.Applications<br />
This section <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> book deal with applications <strong>of</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong>. Among <strong>the</strong> areas<br />
where we see more significant activities include health care, life sciences, and government.<br />
Consequently, majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> chapters deal with health care.<br />
Chapter IX and <strong>the</strong> first chapter in <strong>the</strong> application part <strong>of</strong> this book is by Singh, Iyer,<br />
and Salam, on “<strong>Semantic</strong> E-Business” which is defined as “an approach to managing<br />
knowledge for coordination <strong>of</strong> e-business processes through <strong>the</strong> systematic application<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong> technologies.” This chapter discusses <strong>the</strong> application <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Semantic</strong> <strong>Web</strong> technologies to improve <strong>the</strong> current state <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> art in <strong>the</strong> transparency<br />
<strong>of</strong> e-business processes. Applications discussed include supply chain management,<br />
e-marketplace, healthcare and e-government.<br />
Chapter X titled “A Distributed Patient Identification Protocol <strong>Based</strong> on Control<br />
Numbers with <strong>Semantic</strong> Annotation” by Eichelberg, Aden, and Thoben describes a<br />
protocol that allows one to locate patient records for a given patient in a distributed<br />
environment without <strong>the</strong> need to keep a master patient index. The protocol combines<br />
cryptographic techniques with semantic annotation and mediation, and presents a<br />
simple, <strong>Web</strong>-Service-based access to clinical documents.<br />
Chapter X by Shabo and Hughes addresses <strong>the</strong> “Family History <strong>Information</strong> Exchange<br />
Services Using HL7 Clinical Genomics Standard Specifications.” The future<br />
vision <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> article is <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se services based on health standards over <strong>the</strong><br />
<strong>Web</strong> such that various family history specialized applications will be able to use<br />
<strong>the</strong>m to seamlessly exchange family history data.<br />
Chapter XII, <strong>the</strong> final chapter titled “Archetype-<strong>Based</strong> <strong>Semantic</strong> Interoperability<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Web</strong> Service Messages in <strong>the</strong> Health Care Domain” by Bicer, Kilic, Dogac, and<br />
Laleci, addresses how to semantically annotate <strong>Web</strong> service messages through<br />
archetypes in order to provide <strong>Web</strong> service-based semantic interoperability in <strong>the</strong><br />
health care domain. For this purpose, <strong>the</strong> <strong>Web</strong> service messages are annotated with<br />
OWL representation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> archetypes, and by providing <strong>the</strong> ontology mapping<br />
between <strong>the</strong> archetypes through an OWL ontology mapping tool called OWLmt,<br />
<strong>the</strong> interoperability <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Web</strong> service message instances are achieved.<br />
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