A formal, web-based representation of social networks is both a necessity in terms of
infrastructure as well as a prominent application for the Semantic Web. In this paper we …

In this article, we propose an access control mechanism for Web-based social networks,
which adopts a rule-based approach for specifying access policies on the resources owned …

Web-based social networks (WBSNs) are online communities where participants can
establish relationships and share resources across the Web with other users. In recent …

There has been a recent, tangible growth in RDF published on the Web in accordance with
the Linked Data principles and best practices, the result of which has been dubbed the “Web …

A social network is a set of people (or organizations or other social entities) connected by a
set of social relationships, such as friendship, co-working or information exchange. Social …

The quality of the results of a data mining process strongly depends on the quality of the
data it processes. A good result is more likely to obtain the more useful background …

Inter-social networks operations and functionalities are required in several scenarios (data
integration, data enrichment, information retrieval, etc.). To achieve this, matching user …

Swoogle helps software agents and knowledge engineers find Semantic Web knowledge
encoded in RDF and OWL documents on the Web. Navigating such a Semantic Web on the …

Health care and biomedicine are among the largest and most complex areas of human
knowledge. All of us are potential patients and it is generally assumed that a long, healthy …

One of the core goals of the Semantic Web is to store data in distributed locations, and use
ontologies and reasoning to aggregate it. Social networking is a large movement on the …