A Symbolic Semantics for a Calculus for Service-Oriented Computing

  • Authors:
  • Rosario Pugliese;Francesco Tiezzi;Nobuko Yoshida

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze;Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Firenze;Department of Computing, Imperial College London

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce a symbolic characterisation of the operational semantics of COWS, a formal language for specifying and combining service-oriented applications, while modelling their dynamic behaviour. This alternative semantics avoids infinite representations of COWS terms due to the value-passing nature of communication in COWS and is more amenable for automatic manipulation by analytical tools, such as e.g. equivalence and model checkers. We illustrate our approach through a 'translation service' scenario.