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As the importance of workflow languages increases in both commercial and scientific application domains, requirements to verify properties of workflows, and compositions thereof, will start to emerge. A lack of formal foundations for workflow languages means that constructing and reasoning about such compositions is currently an impossible task, thereby limiting the potential for their assured execution within service-oriented contexts. To this end, we present a language with formal foundations to act as an intermediary in facilitating build-time interoperability by the transformation of legacy workflows.
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Induruwa Fernando, S.D., Simpson, A.C. (2009). Towards a Formal Framework for Workflow Interoperability. In: Bruni, R., Wolf, K. (eds) Web Services and Formal Methods. WS-FM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5387. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01364-5_10
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