What are semantic applications?
Systems and services that understand meanings and put knowledge to work. 

Semantic applications put knowledge to work. Application areas of interest include:

• Semantics in commercial off the shelf enterprise software such as ERP, CRM, SCM, PLM, and HR.
• Ontology-driven discovery in law, medicine, science, defense, intelligence, research, investigation, and real-time document analysis;
• Risk, compliance and policy-driven processes such as situation assessment, exceptions, fraud, case management, and emergency response;
• Knowledge-intensive processes such as modeling & simulation, acquisition, design, engineering, and virtual manufacturing;
• Network & process management such as diagnostics, logistics, planning, scheduling, security, and event-driven processes;
• Adaptive, autonomic, & autonomous processes such as robotics and intelligent systems; and
• Systems that know, learn & reason as people do such as e-learning, tutors, advisors, cognitive agents, and games.