Subject: ode-sws: A semantic web service development environment
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Dear colleagues, 
 
We are pleased to anounce the first release of ODE-SWS, a Semantic  
Web Service development environment, which has been developed in 
the context of the EU project Esperonto (IST-2001-34372)  
<http://www.esperonto.net>. ODE SWS can be downloaded from  
<http://kw.dia.fi.upm.es/odesws> and its main features are:  
 
* Semantic Web Services are graphically developed. To design a  
service, the user does not need to know the specific details of  
the semantic markup language used to represent the service.  
ODE-SWS provides a graphical interface, called SWSDesigner, which  
allows specifying all the features of the services in a graphical  
way (drawing the services). 
 
* The description of the Semantic Web Service is based on the  
Problem Solving Method approach. Following this approach, the  
functional features of a service are described as tasks, while  
the internal structure of the services are modelled as the  
methods that solve those tasks. 
 
* Semantic Web Services can be exported to OWL-S and WSDL. Once  
the service has been graphically developed, ODE SWS generates  
automatically its OWL-S and WSDL representation. 
 
* ODE SWS can use ontologies represented in OWL and RDF(S) and  
ontologies available in any instance of the WebODE ontology  
workbench (e.g., the one available at <http://webode.dia.fi.upm.es/>).  
In addition, the input/output parameters of the services developed with  
ODE-SWS can belong to multiple ontologies. 
 
ODE-SWS has been the result of a collaboration effort between the  
the Ontological Engineering Group at Universidad Politecnica de  
Madrid and the Intelligent Systems Group at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. 
For any doubt about ODE-SWS do not hesitate to contact us  
at rgonza@fi.upm.es. 
 
Best regards, 
 
Asuncion Gomez-Perez (asun@fi.upm.es) 
Rafael Gonzalez-Cabero (rgonza@fi.upm.es) 
Manuel Lama (lama@dec.usc.es)