DARPA Agent Markup Language

The DARPA Agent Markup Language ( DAML short, originally DAML - ONT ) is a technology developed in 2000, XML - based markup language for ontologies, which is used for the Semantic Web. Here, in a web browser, not only the content of Web pages are represented, but also their significance and relationships to other resources on the World Wide Web.

The language is the result of a research program, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) and named after this - an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, which conducts research projects for the U.S. armed forces. The DAML program, where the DAML contractors and the Joint EU / U.S. Committee for markup languages ​​work has led in 2000 to the development of DAML OIL markup language. This development, in turn, initiated 2002 a WebOnt (short for web ontology) mentioned working group of the World Wide Web Consortium.

The current research focuses on the preparation of ontologies and rules for reasoning and derived actions. Many results are now included in the Web Ontology Language (OWL ).

Example

The following simplified example shows a DAML ontology in which " people " as the union of disjoint sets of " men " and "women" are described.

        person            <-! Men be defined as a derived class of persons. ->                 < - Women be simplified defined by disjunction. ->                      < - People are defined as the union of the above disjoint sets. ->                            References