Modeling and reasoning about service behaviors and their compositions

  • Authors:
  • Aida Čaušević;Cristina Seceleanu;Paul Pettersson

  • Affiliations:
  • Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden;Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden;Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • ISoLA'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Leveraging applications of formal methods, verification, and validation - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Service-oriented systems have recently emerged as context-independent component-based systems. Unlike components, services can be created, invoked, composed, and destroyed at run-time. Consequently, all services need a way of advertising their capabilities to the entities that will use them, and service-oriented modeling should cater for various kinds of service composition. In this paper, we show how services can be formally described by the resource-aware timed behavioral language REMES, which we extend with service-specific information, such as type, capacity, time-to-serve, etc., as well as boolean constraints on inputs, and output guarantees. Assuming a Hoare-triple model of service correctness, we show how to check it by using the strongest postcondition semantics. To provide means for connecting REMES services, we propose a hierarchical language for service composition, which allows for verifying the latter's correctness. The approach is applied on an abstracted version of an intelligent shuttle system.