Increasing computational capabilities and decreasing costs of commonly used devices, and the concomitant development of short
range, ad-hoc networking technologies, will help realize the pervasive computing paradigm. In this paper, we present the use
of semantically rich descriptions for devices to discover, and cooperate with, others in their vicinity. In particular, we
describe our ongoing projects that have used DAML for service discovery, service composition, data management, and trust based
security in pervasive computing environments.
This work supported in part by NSF awards 9875433, 0070802, and the DARPA DAML program.