Towards compensation correctness in interactive systems

  • Authors:
  • Cátia Vaz;Carla Ferreira

  • Affiliations:
  • INESC-ID, DEETC, ISEL, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal;CITI, Departamento de Informática, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • WS-FM'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web services and formal methods
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

One fundamental idea of service-oriented computing is that applications should be developed by composing already available services. Due to the long running nature of service interactions, a main challenge in service composition is ensuring correctness of failure recovery. In this paper, we use a process calculus suitable for modelling long running transactions with a recovery mechanism based on compensations. Within this setting, we discuss and formally state correctness criteria for compensable processes compositions, assuming that each process is correct with respect to failure recovery. Under our theory, we formally interpret self-healing compositions, that can detect and recover from failures, as correct compositions of compensable processes.