Showing papers by "Massimo Paolucci published in 2001"
Proceedings Article•
30 Jul 2001
TL;DR: 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 are described, which compare DAML-S with several industry efforts to define standards for characterizing services on the Web.
Abstract: 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 characterizing services on the Web.
3,061 citations
28 May 2001
TL;DR: It is shown that meaningful commitment semantics can be inferred from communications protocols and that these hold even in a heterogeneous, competetive environment.
Abstract: We consider the important aspect of an agent to be its social aspect; its communications with other agents. The concept of commitment has been a vexing one because it tends to either be too high-level to be expressed generally, or too low-level to provide any real utility. We show that meaningful commitment semantics can be inferred from communications protocols and that these hold even in a heterogeneous, competetive environment. We will brie y describe how we extend action-level semantics, how we infer commitment from conversation policies, and how we integrated these ideas into an agent toolkit implementation.
7 citations