Date ii Abstract Web mapping is the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web. With increased ease in collecting geospatial data, web mapping applications are becoming ubiquitous. Software testing is done to ensure that applications are functioning as per expectations. Results from empirical studies showed that testing has been the least emphasized...

This paper formalizes several independent approaches on how to develop Semantic Web applications using object-oriented programming languages and Object-Triple Mapping. Using such mapping, Semantic Web applications have been developed up to three times faster compared to traditional Semantic Web software engineering. Results show that at the same time, developer satisfaction has been significant...

Enormous information available on the Web creates a demand for automatic ways of processing and analyzing data. Semantic Web technologies are used to provide automatic ways of web data processing by integrating several heterogeneous knowledge bases available on the web. Information integration of a domain includes the process of mapping and merging of ontologies. In the semantic web application...

With the ever growing need of semantically linking data across different domain, organizational and diplomacy boundaries using RDF and OWL, one of the major obstacles impeding the advancement of Semantic Web is the data availability. This paper presents a browser-based semantic mapping tool for converting linked data on the Web to be available for Semantic Web applications. It is aiming at help...