SWSL Committee
Statement of Mission and Objectives
The mission of the SWSI Language Committee is to identify and develop
technology that will provide a firm, long-term foundation for the
future of Web services on the Internet. This foundation will support
the most general approaches to service deployment and use that are
currently technically feasible; it will be flexible, extensible, and
consistent with the vision of the Semantic Web. We shall do this in a
manner that builds on and is maximally consistent with emerging
commercial work on Web services. We shall endeavor to provide a
long-term perspective to the commercial Web services standards
community, and to be a research resource by which relevant
technologies of sufficient maturity can be brought to bear on these
standards.
The commitee's specific objectives are twofold:
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To develop standardized ways of conceptualizing and organizing semantic information
about services.
This information should be sufficiently general to be able to support
nontrivial automated interactions between Web services and intelligent
software agents, including interactions that are determined by an
autonomous agent and which were not explicitly specified by the agent
builder.
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To develop a language for the declarative specification of this
semantic information.
This language will:
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Enable automation and dynamism in all aspects of Web service
provision and use, such as discovery, selection, composition,
negotiation and contracting, invocation, monitoring of progress,
and recovery from failure;
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Be extensible and allow for incremental exploitation;
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Support a style of service use that is closely integrated with
information resources on the Semantic Web;
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Support the construction of powerful tools and methodologies.
This work will be done in close collaboration with the SWSI
Architecture Committee, and will support the requirements identified
by the Architecture Committee. Insofar as possible, this language
specification will be consistent with Semantic Web technology
directions emerging internationally, and will be suitable as the
starting point for a standardization activity, in a suitable forum
such as the World Wide Web Consortium.
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