With the emergence of Web 2.0 and the related technologies, composing services has left
the traditional frontiers of enterprises. In fact, end-users need to use a certain kind of …

With a multitude of data sources available online, data consumers might find it hard to select
the best combination of sources for their needs. Aspects such as price, licensing, service …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

The need for integration of all types of client and server applications that were not initially
designed to interoperate is gaining popularity. One of the reasons for this popularity is the …

Web 2.0 and Beyond: Principles and Technologies draws on the author's iceberg model of
Web 2.0, which places the social Web at the tip of the iceberg underpinned by a framework …

Schema matching is the process of establishing correspondences between the attributes of
database schemas for data integration purposes. Although several automatic schema …

Combining the Semantic Web and the Ubiquitous Web, Web 3.0 is for things. The Semantic
Web enables human knowledge to be machine-readable and the Ubiquitous Web allows …

Modern Web 2.0 applications are characterized by high user involvement: users receive
support for creating content and annotations as well as" composing" applications using …

As the number of publicly-available datasets are likely to grow, the demand of establishing
the links between these datasets is also getting higher and higher. For creating such links …

Wikidata is a companion to Wikipedia that captures a substantial part of the information
about most Wikipedia entities in machine-readable structured form. In addition to directly …