Re: DAML-S and the UDDI initiative

Hello Charlie -

Charlie Abela wrote:

> I have some questions regarding the promised release of DAML-S (0.7).
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> i. Will this version handle the somewhat incomplete process model ontology? I am referring to the lack of possible mapping between
> inputs and preconditions to outputs and post-conditions. How is the group planning to handle this issue?

No, we don't expect all issues about the process model to be resolved with this release, and this particularly applies to issues
having to do with expressing preconditions and effects.  Two quick comments about this -- First, resolving these issues will be a
primary focus of the 1.0 release.  Second, their resolution (at least in part) may depend on (other people's) work on extending the
expressiveness of DAML+0IL (or its descendants).

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> ii. There has only been minimal talk about the grounding ontology in a recent paper, is this going to be dealt with in this new
> version. If not it would be interesting to know the status of the grounding ontology and see onsite some simple examples about its
> intended use and structure.

Yes, this will be dealt with, including some examples.

Regards,
David Martin

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> Regards
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> Charlie

Received on Friday, 12 July 2002 03:09:00 UTC