Visual Ontology Modeling and the Semantic Web

Abstract

The exponential growth of information available on the Internet makes it increasingly necessary to introduce intelligent agents to facilitate the processing of information and knowledge. A few years ago, one of the founders of the Web and current director of the W3 Consortium, Tim Berners-Lee, along with his colleagues (Berners- Lee, Hendler, and Lassila, 2001), proposed to provide the Internet with information whose meaning, beyond its syntax, could be interpreted by a program that would search information in ways that are far more intelligent than now. This new generation of the Internet has been termed “the Semantic Web”.