Martin for DAML-S Coalition                                                                                                                                                     DAML PI Meeting 02/12/02                       
What is DAML-S?
• DARPA Agent Markup Language for Services
                  
• A DAML+OIL ontology for (formally) describing properties and capabilities of Web services
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• An AI-inspired markup language
• draws on description logic and AI planning
• tailored to the representational needs of Services
• expressive power; well-defined semantics
• ontologies support reuse, mapping, succinct markup, ...
                                                                                                         
• Latest release: DAML-S version 0.6, December, 2001
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http://www.daml.org/services/