November 2, 2004 - OWL-S Member Submission Acknowledged at W3C

On Nov.2 the OWL-S Coalition made a member submission to the W3C, with 9 member submitters, and it has been officially acknowledged and published here:
http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/07/.

August 2003 - November 2004 - Big Gap in News Page Maintenance

Apologies. The OWL-S Coalition has limited person-power, and we were unable to allocate any time for maintaining this news page. If there are any OWL-S users or interested parties who would like to help in maintaining this pages and other pages on the site, please contact Massimo Paolucci at paolucci -at- cs -dot- cmu -dot- edu.

July 21-26, 2003 - SSSW-2003

The The First European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW-2003) was held in Cercedilla (Spain). Details can be found at http://minsky.dia.fi.upm.es/summerschool/index.html.

July 14, 2003 - WSABE

The WSABE (Web Services and Agent-Based Engineering) Workshop at AAMAS 2003 (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems), held on July 14, included several papers describing work using DAML-S. The workshop information (including the full papers) is available here: http://agentus.com/WSABE2003/

Papers mentioning DAML-S include the following:

• A Planner for Composing Services Described in DAML-S
  Mithun Sheshagiri, Marie desJardins, Tim Finin
• Composing Workflows of Semantic Web Services
  Mikko Laukkanen, Heikki Helin
• Agent-based architecture for autonomic Web service selection
  E. Michael Maximilien, Munindar P. Singh
• Composing Web Services using an Agent Factory
  Debbie Richards, Sander van Splunter, Frances M.T. Brazier, Marta Sabou

April 7-10, 2003 - DAML-PI Meeting

DAML PI Meeting. The new version of DAML-S (0.9 Beta) was discussed at the PI meeting, and the move to an OWL implementation was proposed. The second SWSI Face-2-Face meeting followed.