Service Discovery and Negotiation With COWS

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Lapadula;Rosario Pugliese;Francesco Tiezzi

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50134 Firenze, Italy;Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50134 Firenze, Italy;Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 50134 Firenze, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

To provide formal foundations to current (web) services technologies, we put forward using COWS, a process calculus for specifying, combining and analysing services, as a uniform formalism for modelling all the relevant phases of the life cycle of service-oriented applications, such as publication, discovery, negotiation, deployment and execution. In this paper, we show that constraints and operations on them can be smoothly incorporated in COWS, and propose a disciplined way to model multisets of constraints and to manipulate them through appropriate interaction protocols. Therefore, we demonstrate that also QoS requirement specifications and SLA achievements, and the phases of dynamic service discovery and negotiation can be comfortably modelled in COWS. We illustrate our approach through a scenario for a service-based web hosting provider.