To fully utilize web-services, users and applications should be able to discover, deploy, compose and synthesize services automatically. This automation can take place only if a formal semantic description of the web-services is available. In this paper we present a markup language called USDL (Universal Service Description Language), for formally describing the semantics of web-services.
Citation:
Luke Simon, Ajay Mallya, Ajay Bansal, Gopal Gupta, Thomas D. Hite, "A Universal Service Description Language," icws, pp.823-824, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'05), 2005