
Chapter 9
Applications
There is no shortage of potential future use case scenarios for Semantic Web
technologies, ranging from information integration over ambient intelligence
to expert systems. Such scenarios are reported in the proceedings of vari-
ous research and industrial conferences, ed ited research books, and project
reports, and we give corresponding pointers in Section 9.10. These reports
are a clear indication of the current state of the art, namely, that Semantic
Web technologies are currently in a transition p hase from research into ap-
plications. This is also witnessed by the industrial development of ontology
editors and reasoners, ...