David Martin

Room EK282 
Artificial Intelligence Center
SRI International 
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025


Email: martinai.sri.com
Phone: 650/859-4119
Fax:   650/859-3735

Research Areas

• Semantic Web: languages, architecture, services
• Software agents
• Information extraction
• Software and database interoperability
• Artifact theory: formal specification of device capabilities, tasks, information resources, etc.
• Multimodal interfaces
• Collaborative educational technology

Current and Recent Projects

• Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes (CALO)
• DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML)
  • Acting chair, OWL-S Coalition
  • Co-chair, Semantic Web Services Initiative (SWSI) Language Committee
• BioSPICE
• AQUAINT
• Janus
• The Open Agent Architecture (OAA)
• FASTUS

Selected Publications

• David Martin and John Domingue, guest editors for Trends and Controversies Department. Semantic Web Services: Past, Present, and Possible Futures. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Sept/Oct 2007 and Nov/Dec 2007. .
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• Daniel Elenius, Reginald Ford, Grit Denker, David Martin, and Mark Johnson. Purpose-Aware Reasoning about Interoperability of Heterogeneous Training Systems. Proceedings of The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Busan, South Korea, November, 2007.
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• David Martin, Massimo Paolucci, Matthias Wagner. Bringing Semantic Annotations to Web Services: OWL-S from the SAWSDL Perspective. Proceedings of The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Busan, South Korea, November, 2007.
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• Massimo Paolucci, Matthias Wagner, and David Martin. Grounding OWL-S in SAWSDL. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007) , Vienna, Austria, Sept. 2007.

• David Martin, Mark Burstein, Drew McDermott, Deborah McGuinness, Sheila McIlraith, Massimo Paolucci, Evren Sirin, Naveen Srinivasan, and Katia Sycara. Bringing Semantics to Web Services with OWL-S. World Wide Web Journal, September 2007, Vol. 10, No. 3.

• Michael Wolverton, Ian Harrison, and David Martin. Issues in Algorithm Characterization for Link Analysis. Proceedings of the 2006 AAAI Fall Symposium on Capturing and Using Patterns for Evidence Detection, Arlington, VA, USA, October 2006.

• David Martin. Putting Web Services in Context. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Context for Web Services (CWS-05), Paris, July 2005.
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• Grit Denker, David Martin. Using Rules to Define the Semantics of Privacy Policies. W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability, 27-28 April 2005, Washington, D.C. Available at http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/paper/76/.

• David Martin, Massimo Paolucci, Sheila McIlraith, Mark Burstein, Drew McDermott, Deborah McGuinness, Bijan Parsia, Terry Payne, Marta Sabou, Monika Solanki, Naveen Srinivasan, and Katia Sycara. Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition (SWSWPC 2004), San Diego, California, July 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3387 Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-24328-3.
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  Also available (for subscribers) in online proceedings on SpringerLink.

• Thomas Garvey, Patrick Lincoln, Charles John Pedersen, David Martin, and Mark Johnson. BioSPICE Access to the Most Current Computational Tools for Biologists. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2003, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

• Richard Waldinger, Douglas Appelt, John Fry, David Israel, Peter Jarvis, David Martin, Susannah Riehemann, Mark Stickel, Mabry Tyson, Jerry Hobbs, and J. L. Dungan. Deductive Question Answering from Multiple Resources. New Directions in Question Answering, M. T. Maybury, ed., 2004, AAAI/MIT Press.

• Sheila A. McIlraith and David L. Martin. Bringing Semantics to Web Services. IEEE Intelligent Systems, pp. 90-93, January-February, 2003.

• Joanna J. Bryson, David L. Martin, Sheila A. McIlraith, and Lynn Andrea Stein. Toward Behavioral Intelligence in the Semantic Web. IEEE Computer, pp. 48-54, November 2002.

• The DAML Services Coalition (alphabetically Anupriya Ankolenkar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Drew McDermott, Sheila A. McIlraith, Srini Narayanan, Massimo Paolucci, Terry R. Payne and Katia Sycara). DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web. Proceedings of The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sardinia, Italy, June, 2002.
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• Anupriya Ankolenkar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Sheila A. McIlraith, Srini Narayanan, Massimo Paolucci, Terry Payne, Katia Sycara, Honglei Zeng. DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services. Proceedings of The International Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS), Stanford, CA, July, 2001.
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• Grit Denker, Jerry R. Hobbs, David Martin, Srini Narayanan, and Richard Waldinger. Accessing Information and Services on the DAML-Enabled Web. Proceedings of The Second International Workshop on the Semantic Web, Hong Kong, May, 2001.
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• Adam Cheyer and David Martin. The Open Agent Architecture. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 4 (1/2), pp. 143-148, March 2001.
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• Douglas E. Appelt and David Martin. Named Entity Extraction from Speech: Approach and Results Using the TextPro System. Proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, pages 51-54, Herndon, Virginia, February - March, 1999.
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• David Martin, Adam Cheyer, and Douglas Moran. The Open Agent Architecture: A Framework for Building Distributed Software Systems. Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 13, No. 1-2, pages 92-128, January 1999.
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• Phokion Kolaitis, David Martin, and Madhukar Thakur. On the Complexity of the Containment Problem for Conjunctive Queries with Built-in Predicates. Proceedings of The Seventeenth Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 98), Seattle, June 1998.
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• David Martin, Adam Cheyer, and Douglas Moran. Building Distributed Software Systems with the Open Agent Architecture. Proceedings of The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM 98), London, March 1998.
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• John Bear, David Israel, Jeff Petit, and David Martin. Using Information Extraction to Improve Information Retrieval. Proceedings of the Sixth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 6), Gathiersburg, MD, November 1997.
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• David Martin, Hiroki Oohama, Douglas Moran and Adam Cheyer. Information Brokering in an Agent Architecture. Proceedings of The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM 97), London, April 1997.
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• Douglas Moran, Adam J. Cheyer, Luc E. Julia, David L. Martin, and Sangkyu Park. The Open Agent Architecture and Its Multimodal User Interface. Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI97), Orlando, Florida, January 1997.
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• David Martin and Hiroki Oohama. The Information Broker Project, Unpublished project report.
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• David Martin, Adam Cheyer, and Gowang-Lo Lee. Agent Development Tools for the Open Agent Architecture. Proceedings of The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM 96), London, April 1996.
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  Presentation slides (screen shots omitted), compressed PostScript file (.gz), 24K

• Douglas E. Appelt, Jerry R. Hobbs, John Bear, David Israel, Megumi Kameyama, Andy Kehler, David Martin, Karen Myers, and Mabry Tyson. SRI International FASTUS System MUC-6 Test Results and Analysis. Proceedings of the MUC-6 Conference, Columbia, Maryland, November, 1995.
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Books

• Lawrence Cavedon, Zakaria Maamar, David Martin, and Boualem Benatallah, editors. Extending Web Services Technologies: The Use of Multi-Agent Approaches. Springer, 2004.

Selected Presentations

• "Reasoning about Interoperability of Heterogeneous Systems", keynote presentation, 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE 2007); June 6, 2007; Innsbruck, Austria.
• Keynote speech, Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2006); May 15, 2006; Las Vegas.
• Tutorial, Semantic Technology Conference; March 6, 2006; San Francisco.
• Keynote speech, International Workshop on Context for Web Services; July 5, 2005; Paris.
• Semantic Web Services Overview, Semantic Web Applications for National Security (SWANS); April 8, 2005; Arlington, VA.

Selected Professional Activities

• Senior program committee member, AI and the Web track, Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07).
• Organizer, Workshop on Advances in Semantics for Web Services (semantics4ws'06), in conjunction with the the Fourth International Conference on Business Process Mangement (BPM 2006).
• Organizer, Workshop on Agents and the Semantic Web, at the AAAI Fall Symposium Series.
• Co-chair, W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantic Web Services.
• Organizer, The First International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'05), at OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'05).
• Organizer, Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing and Agent-Based Engineering (SOCABE'2005), at AAMAS 2005.
• Program committee member, 2nd International Conference on Grid Services Engineering and Management (GSEM'05).
• Organizer, Workshop on Semantic Web Services: Towards Dynamic Business Integration, at the at the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005).
• Program committee member, 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005).
• Organizer, Workshop on Semantic Web Services: Preparing to Meet the World of Business Applications, at ISWC2004.
• Program committee member, Second Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (SemPGRID04) .
• Program committee member, Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of emantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE04) .
• Organizing committee member, Workshop on Web Services and Agent-Based Engineering (WSABE 2004).
• Program committee member, Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2004) .
• Organizing committee member, Workshop on Web Services and Agent-Based Engineering (WSABE 2003).
• Senior program committee member, 2nd International Semantic Web Conference.
• International program committee member, Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2003).

Intellectual Property

• Patent allowed: “Information Retrieval by Natural Language Querying”, with 10 other (current or former) SRI employees.
• Patent issued: “Unified Messaging Methods and Systems for Communication and Cooperation Among Distributed Agents in a Computing Environment”, with Adam Cheyer.
• Patent issued: “Software-based architecture for communication and cooperation among distributed electronic agents”, with Adam Cheyer.
• Patent pending: “Highly scalable software-based architecture for communication and cooperation among distributed electronic agents”, with Adam Cheyer, patent application filed in 1999.

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