DAML Experiment

SONAT Business Process

Ontology Translation

• daml:equivalentTo and subproperties
• multi-language translation
• automatically generate mappings
• non-equivalent mappings

DAML Services

• service descriptions
• service invocation

Agents

• use of background processes
• persistent agents (long-lived, restarted on re-boot, etc.)
• authenticated agents
• monitoring of agents (GridManager, My Agents, etc.)
• interaction with agents (custom GUI's, etc.)

User Interface

• class/instance viewer
• map display
• table views (WebScripter, etc.)
• graph visualization (Inxight, Grappa, etc.)
• tool bars (Snippets, etc.)

Technology Interoperability

• Microsoft .Net
• Apache/Tomat/EJB
• CoABS Grid/JINI
• JBI

Security

• user authentication
• agent authentication
• digitally signed DAML
• trust models
• access policies in DAML

Content

• generation
  • text editor (DAML Emacs, etc.)
  • manual GUI (OntoMat, etc.)
  • XML translation
  • dynamic DBMS interface
  • natural language (AeroDAML, etc.)
• validation

Ontologies

• generation
  • text editor (DAML Emacs, etc.)
  • manual GUI (OilEd, OntoEdit, Protege, DUET, Sandpiper, etc.)
  • schema import (RDBMS, UML, XML DTD/Schema, etc.)
• analysis (Chimaera, ConsVISOR, etc.)

API Functionality

• dynamic retrival (dynamodel, etc.)
• persistence (DAML DB, etc.)
• cacheing with updates
• publish/subscribe (JBI, etc.)
• security
  • password-protected access
  • certificate-protected access

Reasoning

• JTP
• TRIPLE
• etc.

Rules

• use of native rule systems (JESS, etc.)
• RuleML

Query

• RDQL
• DSSS
• DQL
• etc.

Leave-Behind Capability

• requirements analysis
• realism
• completeness
• site survey
• software licenses
• packaging and installation procedures
• robustness
• testing
• abilitiy to integrate new/different data sources
• user training
• on-going user support

Metrics/Assesment

Emerging Technology

• OWL