Agent-Based Computing Integration and Testing
Abstract
The DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) program developed technology to enable the vision of a Semantic Web, where computers and software agents can discover, understand and exploit disparate data across the World Wide Web in response to a human query. DARPA has provided the leadership and the first crucial steps toward this vision as evidenced by the emerging international standards and technology transition examples initiated under this program. The facilitation, collaboration and sharing of technology across an international research community was critical to the success of DAML, and its successor, the Ontology Web Language (OWL). Like the Semantic Web vision, the work described in this report involved leveraging data physically positioned throughout cyberspace via the World Wide Web (WWW). A very significant portion of the DAML program was conducted on the WWW. Accordingly, the thousands of artifacts evidencing progress and transition are also accessible via the web. This report documents activities and accomplishments under the primary integration and testing contract of the DAML program, along with many live links to underlying standards, documents, tools, tutorials, applications and data artifacts which comprise the bulk of the program legacy and the seeds for future growth of the Semantic Web.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA462293
Entities
People
- J. Michael Dean
Organizations
- BBN Technologies