Covering a vital aspect of the Semantic Web, itself the subject of virtually exponential increases in research dollars, this volume focuses on high-performance data management and the processing of queries in complex, real-world web applications.
Sven Groppe is a research assistant in the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Lübeck, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paderborn on query reformulation for the XML standards XPath, XSLT and XQuery. He was a member of the DAWG W3C Working Group that developed the W3C standard query language SPARQL. His research focus is on large-scale Semantic Web data management and its application in e-business scenarios.