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Secure Cloud Query
Processing for Semantic
Web-Based Social Media
32.1 INTRODUCTION
As we have discussed, the semantic web is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. More small and large
businesses, such as Oracle, IBM, Adobe, Software AG, and many others, are actively using seman-
tic web technologies, and broad application areas such as health-care and life sciences are consider-
ing its possibilities for data integration (W3C, 2009). Sir Tim Berners-Lee originally envisioned the
semantic web as a machine-understandable web (Berners-Lee, 1998). The power of the semantic
web lies in its codication of relationships among web resources (W3C, 20 ...