UMDL Service Classifier:
Available Concepts and Relations

Work is now in progress to define the UMDL Ontology, an extensive formal description of the goods and services in digital libraries. See UMDL Ontology Concept Descriptions for readable definitions, discussion, and diagrams which accurately reflect the current state of the ontology.

The listing below is not consistent with the state-of-the-art UMDL Ontology. This list presents concepts and their associated relations which have been translated into Loom for use by the Service Classifier Agent. Eventually, we hope to automate translation from the stylized natural language descriptions into KIF, and from there into Loom via the Ontolingua translation utility. Because the UMDL Ontology is now in flux, the Loom version is intended only for experimenting with the SCA.

The list of available concepts and relations lists each concept in alphabetical order. Relations which define the concept's slots follow immediately, on indented lines. Concepts that identify services are in bold.

List of Concepts and Relations Available to the SCA.
Updated 11/7/97.


ACADEMIC
ACTION
ACTION.HAS-INPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS-OUTPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS.ACTION-SEQUENCE
ACTION-SEQUENCE
ACTOR
ADDRESS
ADULT
ADVANCED
AGREEMENT
ANSWER
ASCII
ASTRONOMY
ATTRIBUTE
AUCTION
AUCTION.HAS.AUCTION-TYPE
AUCTION.HAS.CLEARING-INTERVAL
AUCTION.HAS.CLEARING-PRICE-POLICY
AUCTION.HAS.FINAL-CLEAR
AUCTION.HAS.GOOD-DIVISIBILITY
AUCTION.HAS.INFO-REVELATION
AUCTION.HAS.NUM-BUYERS
AUCTION.HAS.NUM-SELLERS
AUCTION.HAS.PRICE-QUOTE-INTERVAL
AUCTION.HAS.PRICE-QUOTE-POLICY
AUCTION.HAS.TIE-BREAKING
AUCTION.SELLS.SERVICE
AUCTION-TYPE
AUDIENCE
AVG-PRECISION
AVG-RECALL
AVG-SPEED
BINARY
BIOLOGY
BOOK
BUSINESS
CLEARING-INTERVAL
CLEARING-PRICE-POLICY
COMMUNICATION
COMPUSERVE-GIF
CONCEPTUAL-LEVEL
CONTACT
CONTINUOUS
DATA
DELIVER
ACTION.HAS-INPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS-OUTPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS.ACTION-SEQUENCE
DELIVER.FROM.ADDRESS
DELIVER.HAS.DL-THING
DELIVER.TO.ADDRESS
SERVICE.BY.ACTOR
SERVICE.FOR.ACTOR
SERVICE.HAS.AGREEMENT
DELIVER-WORK
ACTION.HAS-INPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS-OUTPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS.ACTION-SEQUENCE
DELIVER.FROM.ADDRESS
DELIVER.HAS.DL-THING
DELIVER.HAS.INSTANCE
DELIVER.TO.ADDRESS
SERVICE.BY.ACTOR
SERVICE.FOR.ACTOR
SERVICE.HAS.AGREEMENT
DIGITAL-FORMAT
DISCRETE
DL-THING
DLCOLLECTION
DLCOLLECTION.HAS.ADDRESS
DLCOLLECTION.HAS.AUDIENCE
DLCOLLECTION.HAS.CONCEPTUAL-LEVEL
DLCOLLECTION.HAS.INSTANCE
DLCOLLECTION.HAS.PROVIDER
DLCOLLECTION.HAS.TOPIC
DOUBLE-AUCTION
EARTH-SCIENCE
EBCDIC
ENGLISH
EXPRESSION
EXPRESSION.HAS.GENRE
EXPRESSION.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
WORK.HAS.AUDIENCE
WORK.HAS.CONCEPTUAL-LEVEL
WORK.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
WORK.HAS.TOPIC
FAST-SPEED
FICTION
FINAL-CLEAR
GENRE
GIF
GOOD-DIVISIBILITY
GOVERNMENT
HIGH-PRECISION
HIGH-RECALL
HIGH-SCHOOL
HISTORY
IMAGE
IMMEDIATE
INFO-REVELATION
INSTANCE
EXPRESSION.HAS.GENRE
EXPRESSION.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
INSTANCE.HAS.ADDRESS
INSTANCE.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
ITEM.HAS.DIGITAL-FORMAT
ITEM.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
MANIFESTATION.HAS.PUBLISHING-FORMAT
MANIFESTATION.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
WORK.HAS.AUDIENCE
WORK.HAS.CONCEPTUAL-LEVEL
WORK.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
WORK.HAS.TOPIC
INTERMEDIATE
INTRODUCTORY
ITEM
EXPRESSION.HAS.GENRE
EXPRESSION.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
ITEM.HAS.DIGITAL-FORMAT
ITEM.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
MANIFESTATION.HAS.PUBLISHING-FORMAT
MANIFESTATION.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
WORK.HAS.AUDIENCE
WORK.HAS.CONCEPTUAL-LEVEL
WORK.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
WORK.HAS.TOPIC
JOURNAL
LANGUAGE-STUDIES
LINGUISTIC
LIVE
LOW-PRECISION
LOW-RECALL
LP
MANIFESTATION
EXPRESSION.HAS.GENRE
EXPRESSION.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
MANIFESTATION.HAS.PUBLISHING-FORMAT
MANIFESTATION.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
WORK.HAS.AUDIENCE
WORK.HAS.CONCEPTUAL-LEVEL
WORK.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
WORK.HAS.TOPIC
MANY
MATH
MEASURE
MIDDLE-SCHOOL
MUSIC
NEWSPAPER
NOISE
NON-FICTION
NOTATION
NUM-BUYERS
NUM-BUYERS.HAS.NUM-CATEGORY
NUM-CATEGORY
NUM-SELLERS
NUM-SELLERS.HAS.NUM-CATEGORY
ONE
PERFORMANCE
PHENOMENA
PRECISION
PREFERENCE
PRICE-QUOTE-INTERVAL
PRICE-QUOTE-POLICY
PROFESSIONAL
PROVIDER
PROVIDER.HAS.CONTACT
PSYCHOLOGY
PUBLISHING-FORMAT
QUERY
ACTION.HAS-INPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS-OUTPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS.ACTION-SEQUENCE
QUERY.DEVELOP.QUESTION
QUERY.SEND.QUESTION
SERVICE.BY.ACTOR
SERVICE.FOR.ACTOR
SERVICE.HAS.AGREEMENT
QUESTION
RECALL
RECOMMEND
ACTION.HAS-INPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS-OUTPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS.ACTION-SEQUENCE
RECOMMEND.DEVELOP.ANSWER
RECOMMEND.SEND.ANSWER
SERVICE.BY.ACTOR
SERVICE.FOR.ACTOR
SERVICE.HAS.AGREEMENT
RECOMMEND-DLCOLLECTION
ACTION.HAS-INPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS-OUTPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS.ACTION-SEQUENCE
RECOMMEND-DLCOLLECTION.HAS.AUDIENCE
RECOMMEND-DLCOLLECTION.HAS.CONCEPTUAL-LEVEL
RECOMMEND-DLCOLLECTION.HAS.DLCOLLECTION
RECOMMEND-DLCOLLECTION.HAS.PRECISION
RECOMMEND-DLCOLLECTION.HAS.RECALL
RECOMMEND-DLCOLLECTION.HAS.SPEED
RECOMMEND-DLCOLLECTION.HAS.TOPIC
RECOMMEND.DEVELOP.ANSWER
RECOMMEND.SEND.ANSWER
SERVICE.BY.ACTOR
SERVICE.FOR.ACTOR
SERVICE.HAS.AGREEMENT
RECORDED
RIGHTS-OWNER
SCHOOL
SCIENCE
SEQUENTIAL
SERVICE
ACTION.HAS-INPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS-OUTPUT.STATE
ACTION.HAS.ACTION-SEQUENCE
SERVICE.BY.ACTOR
SERVICE.FOR.ACTOR
SERVICE.HAS.AGREEMENT
SLOT
SLOT.HAS.ATTRIBUTE
SLOT.HAS.VALUE
SLOW-SPEED
SOCIAL-STUDIES
SONG
SOUND
SPEED
STATE
STATE.HAS.SLOT
STATIC
SYMBOLIC
TABLOID
TEXT
TIE-BREAKING
TOPIC
VALUE
VIDEO
VISUAL
WALRASIAN
WORK
WORK.HAS.AUDIENCE
WORK.HAS.CONCEPTUAL-LEVEL
WORK.HAS.RIGHTS-OWNER
WORK.HAS.TOPIC
Papers
Run-Time Classification of Agent Services, by Peter Weinstein and Bill Birmingham (available in postscript and rtf format)
Documentation
Service Classifier Agent Programmer's Interface
UMDL Ontology Concepts and Relations available to the Service Classifier Agent
Demo
SCA demo homepage
Classify a service description
Query a service description
History of the current SCA
People
Mail Peter Weinstein
Mail the UMDL architecture group
Mail the UMDL ontology group