Hello, I'm Jim Hendler, and since I am the AC rep for my organization (the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland) I guess I will also be in this working group. My own background arises primarily through involvement in the Semantic Web, I coauthored the Scientific American article of that name with Tim Berners-Lee and Ora Lassila, and have been doing Sem Web research since the mid-90s. In the web services arena, I've been interested in the interaction of Semantics and Web services for a long time. From about 1999-2001 I worked at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where I was chief scientist for information systems and ran some prograns in "agent-based computing" - these were generally related to service-based computing, including the CoABS project whcih did service-based middleware, and the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) program, which gave rise to the DAML-S work mentioned in our charter. Currently I am cochair of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group, which hopes to bring our language (OWL) to Last Call in the next couple of weeks, and I also serve on the Semantic Web Coordination Group. In between telecons, I also manage to run a research group [1], which is working in the dynamic composition of services using semantics. I agree to participate per the charter http://www.w3.org/2003/01/wscwg-charter last revised 2003/01/14 I do not have personal knowledge of any IPR claims held by the MIND Lab regarding Web services choreography. [1] http://www.mindswap.org -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendlerReceived on Monday, 20 January 2003 23:40:14 GMT
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