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Agent-Based Composite Services in DAML-S: the Behavior-Oriented Design of an Intelligent Semantic Web

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Many researchers are working towards the goal of a semantic Web — a Web that is unambiguously computer interpretable, and thus very accessable to artificial intelligence. A semantic Web would allow artificial agents to do the work of searching for and utilizing services required by humans or organizations. DAML-S is a Web service ontology intended to facilitate the semantic Web by describing the properties and capabilities of Web-accessible services in an unambiguous, computer-interpretable form. In this chapter, we propose that an important new perspective on the semantic Web can be obtained by regarding its content as behavioral intelligence. The services encoded in DAML-S can then be viewed as specifications either for extensions of the user-owned agents attempting to exploit the services, or as independent, collaborative agents that can be ‘awakened’ to assist the user agents. We draw on our experience in agent development to elaborate the specification, particularly of the process ontology of DAML-S, in order to support this vision.

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  3. Stanford University Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

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  4. Computers and Cognition Laboratory, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA, 02492, USA

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Bryson, J.J., Martin, D., McIlraith, S.A., Stein, L.A. (2003). Agent-Based Composite Services in DAML-S: the Behavior-Oriented Design of an Intelligent Semantic Web. In: Zhong, N., Liu, J., Yao, Y. (eds) Web Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05320-1_3

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