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Daml-S This project is no longer active. Head: Katia Sycara Contact: Joseph Andrew Giampapa (garof@andrew.cmu.edu) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: CIMDS Associated lab/group: Intelligent Software Agents For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

The World Wide Web is the largest knowledge base that has ever existed. The Web was designed, however, to be understood by humans. The languages currently used to mark up Web pages do not provide the semantic annotation and inference capabilities that are needed to make Web information sources and other Internet entities (agents, devices, services, etc.) understood by computational processes.

The DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) will surpass current markup languages by representing semantic relations in machine-readable ways and enabling agents to reason about them. DAML is being developed as part of the Semantic Web initiative by teams of researchers at various companies and universities. Carnegie Mellon University is participating in DAML development through the Software Agents Group's ATLAS project. ATLAS research objectives include the following:

1. DAML-based language for advertising and locating agents, ontologies, and other entities
2. Tools to facilitate the writing of advertisements and queries
3. Matching engines and agent infrastructure (e.g., ontology agents)
4. Ontologies for
   1. domain-specific agent services/capabilties
   2. describing service parameters and request preferences
   3. describing agent resources
   4. describing agent security parameters
   5. describing low-level services and platform characteristics
5. Agent search engines that serve as crawlers for the middle agent

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Anupriya Ankolekar	PhD Student, HCII
	Joseph Andrew Giampapa	Project Manager	garof@andrew.cmu.edu
	Takahiro Kawamura	Visiting Industrial Scholar
	Massimo Paolucci	Principal Research Programmer
	Terence Payne	Project Scientist
	Michael Rectenwald	Writer/Editor III
	Katia Sycara	Research Professor	katia@cs.cmu.edu

Past Sub-projects

Daml-S (Semantic) Matchmaker - We have developed our Semantic Matchmaker, an entity that will allow web services to locate other services, using DAML-S, a DAML-based language for describing service capabilities.

RETSINA Semantic Web Calendar Agent - We are Retsina Semantic Web Calendar Agent to assist in organizing and scheduling meetings between several individuals, and coordinating these meetings based on existing schedules maintained by MS Outlook.

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• A Multi-Agent System for Automatically Resolving Network Interoperability Problems
  J.A. Giampapa, K. Sycara, A. Fath, A. Steinfeld, and D. Siewiorek
  Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004), The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM), 1515 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 (U.S.A.), Vol. 3, July, 2004, pp. 1462 -- 1463. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [69 KB] copyrighted

• Delivering Semantic Web Services
  M. Paolucci, K. Sycara, and T. Kawamura
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [310 KB], ps.gz [567 KB] copyrighted

• DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services
  A. Ankolekar, M. Burstein, J.R. Hobbs, O. Lassila, D.L. Martin, S.A. McIlraith, S. Narayanan, M. Paolucci, T. Payne, K. Sycara, and H. Zeng
  Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Workshop, 2001.