Knowledge on the Web: Making Web Services Knowledge-Aware

Knowledge personalization is currently the most investigated issue in the context of service-oriented systems on the Web. Knowledge representation and management are the critical issues for knowledge personalization, and actually are currently being widely investigated, mainly due to the explosion of data modeling technologies such as XML and XML Schema. Despite some progress, a widely approved standard for delivering knowledge is still missing. In this paper we propose a new approach for representing, managing, and delivering knowledge on the Web and the correspondent framework, called Distributed Knowledge Networks (DKN), that implements it. We also provide a reference architecture for DKN and some experimental results about knowledge personalization.