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Terry, with the other members of the DAML-S Coalition, has been awarded the SWSA Ten-Year award for the seminal paper in Semantic Web Services, entitled:
"DAML-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services".
which originally appeared in the 2001 Semantic Web Working Symposium, which was the precursor to the formation of the International Semantic Web Conference Series. The award was instigated this year by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) to recognises the highest impact papers in the field of the Semantic Web over the last 10 years. The announcement was made at the 2011 International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn, Germany. The award included a cash prize, which has been used to create the Semantic Web Service Challenge for 2012.
This seminal paper was the first to propose how the "DARPA Agent Markup Language" could be used to represent both Agent Capabilities and Web Services using a logically- supported knowledge representation language in a sharable and computationally comprehendible way. These descriptions could then be used for discovery, consumption and planning within open, decentralised systems. It later evolved into OWL-S, and led the way to the creation of the Semantic Web Services field, which has since seen contributions such as SAWSDL and WSMO, and ultimately led to the W3C candidate recommendation on "OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services" in 2004.
The SWSA Ten-Year Award recognises the highest impact papers from the ISWC proceedings ten years prior. The decision is based primarily, but not exclusively, on the number of citations to the papers from the proceedings in the intervening decade.
Terry wins SWSA 10 Year Distinguished Paper Award at ISWC 2011
25/10/2011
2011 Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) Ten-Year Award
Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark H. Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Sheila A. McIlraith, Srini Narayanan, Massimo Paolucci, Terry R. Payne, Katia P. Sycara, Honglei Zeng
"DAML-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services".
Originally published in the Semantic Web Working Symposium in 2001.
The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor Web resources offering particular services and having particular properties. As part of the DARPA Agent Markup Language program, we have begun to develop an ontology of services, called DAML- S, that will make these functionalities possible. In this paper we describe the overall structure of the ontology, the service profile for advertising services, and the process model for the detailed description of the operation of services. We also compare DAML-S with several industry efforts to define standards for characterising services on the Web.