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While current studies on Web services composition are mostly focused - from the technical viewpoint - on standards and protocols, this work investigates the adoption of formal methods for dependable composition. The Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) - an OASIS standard widely adopted both in academic and industrial environments - is considered as a touchstone for concrete composition languages and an analysis of its ambiguous Recovery Framework specification is offered. In order to show the use of formal methods, a precise and unambiguous description of its (simplified) mechanisms is provided by means of a conservative extension of the π-calculus. This has to be intended as a well known case study providing methodological arguments for the adoption of formal methods in software specification. The aspect of verification is not the main topic of the paper but some hints are given. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Author(s): Dragoni N, Mazzara M
Editor(s): Laneve, C., Su, J.
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Web Services and Formal Methods: 6th International Workshop (WS-FM)
Year of Conference: 2010
Pages: 92-109
ISSN: 0302-9743 (print) 1611-3349 (online)
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14458-5_6
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14458-5_6
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Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN: 9783642144578
