DAML Services Breakout

	Katia Sycara, CMU
	Mark Burstein, BBN

Issues Discussed

	Overview of EU Web Services Modeling Framework
	Comparisons with industry efforts
		where is DAML-S value added?
	How to get DAML-S adopted/promoted?
	Outstanding Technical Issues
	Action Items

How to get DAML-S adopted/used?

	Need to justify ‘value added’ vs current industry efforts
			What can be done better, more automatically by adding DAML-S capabilities to web service advertisements?
				Use of matchmakers, semantics of inputs, preconditions and effects to link services
			Will developers be capable of adequately defining their services at the ‘knowledge level’? What kinds of support will be needed?
		Develop  a set of use cases,
			implement a set of working DAML-S enabled service examples
			support a set of experiments to measure performance improvements vs industry efforts at service standards
		Make clearer the relationships/value added by demonstrating integration with UDDI, WSDL, etc.
		Comparison with additional industry efforts (e2open, WSFL)
		Greater W3C involvement (interactions with new services WGs)

Outstanding Technical Issues

	Issues of DAML+OIL expressiveness for describing DAML-S
		e.g. preconditions and effects, rules (conditionals)
	Addressing Failures
		reasons for failure
		default failure behaviours

Action Items

	Resolve outstanding technical issues - Produce Release 1.0 within 6 months
	Develop scenario for use of DAML-S in DAML Experiment
		Identify examples to include in DAML Experiment
	Put DAML-S registration and matchmaking services on DAML.ORG
	Identify services within the DAML research community to describe using DAML-S.
	Complete development of tools for describing DAML-S advertisements and process models
	Implement groundings for HTTP, CoABS GRID, FIPA
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