DAML PI Meeting Status Briefing

Major Research Areas
Ontology Engineering Tools
DAML Annotation (Markup) Tools
Semantic Web Application Engineering

Significant Accomplishments
Developed ontology visualization environment
Collaborated with GRCI and Telelogic to develop UML profile for DAML
Modified COTS UML tool to support DAML editing and generation
Developed web-based ConsVISor tool
Prolog-based consistency checker for DAML ontologies
Checks for semantic errors based on axiomatic specification
Formally verified DAML semantics
Modeled DAML axiomatic semantics in Specware
Applied SNARK theorem prover to look for inconsistencies
Provided valuable feedback to DAML axiomatic semantics team
Liaison between DAML community and Object Management Group
 Proposed extensions to UML to support DAML ontology engineering
 Organized OMG Ontology WG meetings and Services Grid Workshop

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