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October 2011

Dr Terry Payne Awarded the SWSA 10 Year Distinguished Paper Award at ISWC 2011

Terry Payne has been awarded the SWSA 10 Year Distinguished Paper Award for his contribution to the paper "DAML-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services" [1], originally published at the Semantic Web Working Symposium in 2001 [2]. The award was instigated this year by the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) to recognises the highest impact papers in the field of the Semantic Web over the last 10 years. The announcement was made at the 2011 International Semantic Web Conference in Bonn, Germany.

This seminal paper [1] was the first to propose how the "DARPA Agent Markup Language" could be used to represent both Agent Capabilities and Web Services using a logically-supported knowledge representation language in a sharable and computationally comprehendible way. These descriptions could then be used for discovery, consumption and planning within open, decentralised systems. It later evolved into OWL-S, and led the way to the creation of the Semantic Web Services field, which has since seen contributions such as SAWSDL and WSMO, and ultimately led to the W3C candidate recommendation on "OWL-S: Semantic Markup for Web Services" [3] in 2004.

Ankolenkar, A., Burstein, M., Hobbs, J., Lassila, O., Martin, D., McIlraith, S., Narayanan, S., Paolucci, M., Payne, T. R., Sycara, K. and Zeng, H. DAML-S: A Semantic Markup Language For Web Services. In: Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS), Stanford University, CA, July 2001.

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