Semantic Web Services

Autonomous Web Services Web Services represent the most recent as well as the most revolutionary technology developed for the World Wide Web. Web Services are transforming the web from a collection of static pages to a web of dynamic service providers that automatically discover information that we seek, negotiate on our behalf for goods we intend to purchase, gather information from different sources, and fuse it into coherent forms. Today, Web Services are discovered and invoked manually by human users, limiting the ability to take advantage of opportunities that may exist.

Our research efforts are aimed at overcoming these limitations, allowing Web Services to discover and interact with each other autonomously, thus reducing the need for human mediation. This research will help us to realize the vision for the next Web revolution.

To make possible stable and scalable autonomous Web Services, a widely used, extensible, multiagent infrastructure is crucial. This infrastructure should be language-ready for the semantic annotation of services, so that services can be discovered, invoked, and composed. It must also support communications and interoperability between services, while allowing various types of interaction, including synchronous, asynchronous, brokered, and peer-to-peer.

We at the Intelligent Software Agents Lab have adapted the RETSINA Discovery mechanism to Web Services, with the development of the DAML-S Matchmaker. The application of our matchmaking technology to the domain of Web Services will help companies reduce the cost of doing e-business, become more agile, deploy faster solutions, and open up new business opportunities.

See the various pages for under Semantic Web pages for the details of our work, including publications.

Tutorial:

• K. Sycara and D. Martin, "Tools and Technologies for Semantic Web Services: An OWL-S Perspective," Half-Day Tutorial Proposal for ISWC 2006.

Publications on OWL-S (DAML-S) and the Semantic Web follow. (See Publications page for complete list of publications).

• L. Kagal, G. Denker, T. Finin, M. Paolucci, N. Srinivasan and K. Sycara, "An Approach to Confidentiality and Integrity for OWL-S", in Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium.
  
  
• M. Paolucci, J. Soudry, N. Srinivasan, and K. Sycara, "Untangling the Broker Paradox in OWL-S", in Proceedings of AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium.
  
  
• N. Srinivasan, M. Paolucci and K. Sycara, "Adding OWL-S to UDDI, implementation and throughput." First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition **(SWSWPC 2004) 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
  
  
• D. Martin, M. Paolucci, S. McIlraith, M. Burstein, D. McDermott, D. McGuinness, B. Parsia, T. R. Payne, M. Sabou, M. Solanki, N. Srinivasan, K. Sycara (SRI, CMU, Univ. Toronto) "Bringing Semantics to Web Services: The OWL-S Approach." First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition (SWSWPC 2004) 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
  
  
• K. Sycara and M. Paolucci, "Ontologies in Agent Architectures," in Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems, 2004.
  
  
• K. Sycara, M. Paolucci, A. Ankolekar and N. Srinivasan, "Automated Discovery, Interaction and Composition of Semantic Web services," Journal of Web Semantics, Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2003, pp. 27-46.
  
  
• G. Denker, L. Kagal, T. Finin, M. Paolucci, N. Srinivasan, and K. Sycara, "Security For DAML Web Services: Annotation and Matchmaking" In Proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), Sandial Island, Fl, USA, October 2003, pp 335-350.
  
  
• M. Paolucci, N. Srinivasan, K. Sycara, and T. Nishimura, "Toward a Semantic Choreography of Web Services: From WSDL to DAML-S" In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2003, pp 22-26.
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• T. Kawamura, J. A. De Blasio, T. Hasegawa, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, "A Preliminary Report of a Public Experiment of a Semantic Service Matchmaker combined with a UDDI Business Registry," 1st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2003), Trento, Italy, December 2003.
  
  
• M. Paolucci, A. Ankolekar, N. Srinivasan and K. Sycara, "The DAML-S Virtual Machine," In Proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2003, Sandial Island, Fl, USA, October 2003, pp 290-305.
  
  
• M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara, "Autonomous Semantic Web Services." In IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 7, #5, September/October 2003, pp 34-41.
  
  
• M. Paolucci, N. Srinivasan, K. Sycara, and T. Nishimura, "Towards a Semantic Web Ecommerce," in Proceedings of 6th Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS2003), Colorado Springs, Co, USA, June 2003, pp 153-161 .
• M. Paolucci, K. Sycara, T. Nishimura, and N. Srinivasan, "Using DAML-S for P2P Discovery," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2003, pp 203- 207 .
  
  
• M. Paolucci, K. Sycara, and T. Kawamura, "Delivering Semantic Web Services," in Proceedings of the Twelves World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003), Budapest, Hungary, May 2003, pp 111- 118 .
  
  
• R. Singh, K. Sycara, T. R. Payne, "Distributed AI, Schedules and the Semantic Web," in the XML Journal, Vol. 03, Number 11.
  
  
• M. Paolucci, T. Kawamura, T. R. Payne, and K. Sycara, "Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI," in Proceedings of Web Services, E-business and Semantic Web Workshop
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• A. Ankolekar, F. Huch, and K. Sycara, "Concurrent Semantics for the Web Services Specification Language DAML-S," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, York, UK, April 8-11, 2002.
  
  
• T. R. Payne, R. Singh, and K. Sycara, "Calendar Agents on the Semantic Web," IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 17(3), pp. 84-86, May/June 2002. Copyright 2002, IEEE Computer Society. Also appears in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 3(5), 2002.
  
  
• T. R. Payne, R. Singh, and K. Sycara, "RCal: A Case Study on Semantic Web Agents," in The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2002.
  

• T. R. Payne, M. Paolucci, R. Singh, and K. Sycara, "Facilitating Message Exchange though Middle Agents." in The First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2002.
  
  
• A. Ankolekar, F. Huch, and K. Sycara, "Concurrent Execution Semantics for DAML-S with Subtypes," in The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2002.
  
  
• T. R. Payne, R. Singh, and K. Sycara, "Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web," in The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2002.
  
  
• The DAML Services Coalition: A. Ankolekar, M. Burstein, J. R. Hobbs, O. Lassila, D. L. Martin, D. McDermott, S. A. McIlraith, S. Narayanan, M. Paolucci, T. R. Payne and K. Sycara. "DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web." In The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2002.
  
  
• M., Takahiro Kawamura, T. R. Payne, and K. Sycara, "Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities," in Proceedings of the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002)
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• Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara; "Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI," in Proceedings of Web Services, E-business and Semantic Web Workshop
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• Anupriya Ankolekar, Frank Huch and Katia Sycara. "Concurrent Semantics for the Web Services Specification Language DAML-S," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, York, UK, April 8-11, 2002.
  
  
• K. Sycara, Seth Widoff, Matthias Klusch and Jianguo Lu, "LARKS: Dynamic Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Software Agents in Cyberspace." In Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 5, 173–203, 2002.
  
  
• Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, and Katia Sycara. "Calendar Agents on the Semantic Web." IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 17(3), pp. 84-86, May/June 2002. Copyright 2002, IEEE Computer Society. Also appears in IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Vol. 3(5), 2002.
  
  
• Terry R. Payne, Rahul Singh, and Katia Sycara. "Browsing Schedules - An Agent-based approach to navigating the Semantic Web," in The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2002.
  
  
• The DAML Services Coalition: Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Drew McDermott, Sheila A. McIlraith, Srini Narayanan, Massimo Paolucci, Terry R. Payne and Katia Sycara. "DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web," in The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2002.
  
  
• Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, Katia Sycara; "Semantic Matching of Web Services Capabilities," in Proceedings of the 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002)
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• Katia Sycara, Seth Widoff, Matthias Klusch and Jianguo Lu, "LARKS: Dynamic Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Software Agents in Cyberspace." Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 5, 173–203, 2002.
  
  
• The DAML Services Coalition: Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark Burstein, Jerry R. Hobbs, Ora Lassila, David L. Martin, Sheila A. McIlraith, Srini Narayanan$, Massimo Paolucci, Terry Payne, Katia Sycara, Honglei Zeng. "DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services," in Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Workshop, 2001.
  
  
• K. Sycara, J. Lu, M. Klusch, and S. Widoff. Dynamic Service Matchmaking among Agents in Open Information Environments . Journal ACM SIGMOD Record , Special Issue on Semantic Interoperability in Global Information Systems, A. Ouksel, A. Sheth (Eds.), 1999.
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• K. Sycara, J. Lu, M. Klusch, and S. Widoff. Matchmaking Among Heterogeneous Agents in the Internet . Proceedings AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace , Stanford, USA, 1999.
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• K. Sycara, J. Lu, and M. Klusch. Interoperability among Heterogeneous Software Agents on the Internet . Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-98-22 , CMU Pittsburgh, USA, October 1998.
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