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Abstract. In this paper we present DAML-S, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services. Web Services ? Web-accessible programs and devices ? are garnering a great deal of interest from industry, and standards are emerging for low-level descriptions of Web Services. DAML-S complements this effort by providing Web Service descriptions at the application layer, describing what a service can do, and not just how it does it. In this paper we describe three aspects of our ontology: the service profile, the process model, and the service grounding. The paper focuses on the grounding, which connects our ontology with low-level XML-based descriptions of Web Services. 1 Services on the Semantic Web The Semantic Web [2] is rapidly becoming a reality through the development of Semantic Web markup languages such as DAML+OIL [9]. These markup languages enable the creation of arbitrary domain ontologies that support the unambiguous description of Web content. Web Services [15] ? Web-accessible, |
