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Model checking web services choreography in process analysis toolkit

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Web service (WS) is an emerging software technology, especially acting an important role in cloud computing. The WS choreography description language (WS-CDL) is the standard for modeling the observable behavior of WS composition across multiple participants from a global point of view. However, it lacks of a formal semantics and could easily lead to misunderstanding and different implementations. In this paper, the WS-CDL based specifications are formally extracted in a communicating sequential process supporting a formal approach to checking WS models. In addition, formalisms and model checking are explicitly illustrated through a simple but non-trivial example with the help of model checker process analysis toolkit (PAT).

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  1. School of Computer Engineering and Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, P. R. China

    Dong Xu  (许 东), Zhou Lei  (雷 州), Wei-min Li  (李卫民) & Bo-feng Zhang  (张博锋)

  2. High Performance Computing Center, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, P. R. China

    Zhou Lei  (雷 州) & Bo-feng Zhang  (张博锋)

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Communicated by ZHANG Wu

Project supported by the Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (Grant No.J50103)

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Xu, D., Lei, Z., Li, Wm. et al. Model checking web services choreography in process analysis toolkit. J. Shanghai Univ.(Engl. Ed.) 14, 45–49 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11741-010-0109-3

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