Core Technologies for the Internet of Services

Abstract

Information and knowledge are growing permanently and represent valuable resources for many enterprises. The efficient access to knowledge of an enterprise like expertise, contact persons, project and milestone plans, etc. may simplify business processes and lead to time and cost savings. Semantic technologies offer numerous possibilities to enrich data with background information about their meaning. Such semantic relations do not only lead to more efficient search in larger information repositories but they also assist the user in diverse processes like editing, annotation and processing of information. In addition they offer new means of access and transfer of knowledge. Each information unit is linked to other units in the same domain, which allows faster search and offers a way of information access that is close to the habits of humans, i.e. the creation of new knowledge and its association to already existing knowledge. This approach of the whole THESEUS research program was also the basis of the Core Technology Cluster of THESEUS. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.