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Services as a Paradigm of Computation

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The recent success of service-oriented architectures gives rise to some fundamental questions: To what extent do services constitute a new paradigm of computation? What are the elementary ingredients of this paradigm? What are adequate notions of semantics, composition, equivalence? How can services be modeled and analyzed? This paper addresses and answers those questions, thus preparing the ground for forthcoming software design techniques.

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Reisig, W., Bretschneider, J., Fahland, D., Lohmann, N., Massuthe, P., Stahl, C. (2007). Services as a Paradigm of Computation. In: Jones, C.B., Liu, Z., Woodcock, J. (eds) Formal Methods and Hybrid Real-Time Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4700. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75221-9_25

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