Agent-Based Composite Services in DAML-S: the Behavior-Oriented Design of an Intelligent Semantic Web [chapter]

Joanna J. Bryson, David Martin, Sheila A. McIlraith, Lynn Andrea Stein
2003 Web Intelligence  
Many researchers are working towards the goal of a semantic Weba Web that provides information in a way that is useful to artificial intelligences. A semantic Web would allow artificial agents to do the work of searching for and organizing services required by humans or organizations. DAML-S is a Web service ontology intended to facilitate the semantic Web by describing the properties and capabilities of Web-available services in an unambiguous, computerinterpretable form. In this paper, we
more » ... ose that an important new perspective on the semantic Web can be obtained by regarding its content as behavioral intelligence. The services encoded in DAML-S can then be viewed as specifications either for extensions of the user agents attempting to exploit the services, or as independent, collaborative agents that can be 'awakened' to assist the user agents. We draw on our experience in agent development to elaborate the specification, particularly of the process ontology of DAML-S, in order to support this vision.
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-05320-1_3 fatcat:qti65p2l45dt7lsmijz4m3jwly