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Towards Compensation Correctness in Interactive Systems

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Web Services and Formal Methods (WS-FM 2009)

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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.

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  1. INESC-ID / DEETC, ISEL, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal

    Cátia Vaz

  2. CITI / Departamento de Informática, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

    Carla Ferreira

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  1. Dipartimento de Scienze dell’Informazione, Mura Anteo, Zamboni 7, Bologna, Italy

    Cosimo Laneve

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110, Santa Barbara, USA

    Jianwen Su

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Vaz, C., Ferreira, C. (2010). Towards Compensation Correctness in Interactive Systems. In: Laneve, C., Su, J. (eds) Web Services and Formal Methods. WS-FM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14458-5_10

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