Terry R. Payne is a computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Liverpool.
He is best known for his work on Semantic Web Services and in particular for his work on OWL-S. Dr Payne received his Undergraduate Degree (BSc) in Computer Systems Engineering from University of Kent in 1990, an MSc in Applied Artificial Intelligence[1] from University of Aberdeen in 1994, followed by his PhD from the same institution for his work "Dimensionality Reduction and Representation for Nearest Neighbour Learning".
[4] The OWL-S ontology facilitates the discovery, invocation, composition and monitoring of Web resources the offer services.
[5][6][7] It was built on top of Web Ontology Language (OWL) by the DARPA DAML program.
[8] He has also worked on various uses of decentralised knowledge negotiation in autonomous agent communities.