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DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web

by Ankolenkar, Anupriya and Burstein, Mark and Hobbs, Jerry R. and Lassila, Ora and Martin, David L. and McDermott, Drew and McIlraith, Sheila A. and Narayanan, Srini and Paolucci, Massimo and Payne, Terry R. and Sycara, Katia

in Proceedings of The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)

Address: Sardinia, Italy
June 2002.

In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services – Web-accessible programs and devices – are garnering a great deal of interest from industry, and standards are emerging for low-level descriptions of Web Services. DAML-S complements this effort by providing Web Service descriptions at the application layer, describing what a ser-vice can do, and not just how it does it. In this paper we describe three aspects of our ontology: the service profile, the process model, and the service grounding. The paper focuses on the grounding, which connects our ontology with low-level XML-based descriptions of Web Services.