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A Service-Oriented Workflow Language for Robust Interacting Applications

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE (OTM 2005)

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In a service-oriented world, a long-running business process can be implemented as a set of stateful services that represent the individual but coordinated steps that make up the overall business activity. These service-based business processes can then be combined to form loosely-coupled distributed applications where the participants interact by calling on each other’s services. A key concern is to ensure that these interacting service-based processes work correctly in all cases, including maintaining consistency of both their stored data and the status of the joint activities. We propose a new model and notation for expressing such business processes which helps the designer avoid many common sources of errors, including inconsistency. Unlike most existing orchestration or workflowa This work was completed while the author was working at CSIRO. languages used for expressing business processes, we do not separate the normal case from exceptional activity, nor do we treat exceptional activity as a form of failure that requires compensation. Our model has been demonstrated by developing prototype systems.

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  1. ICT Centre, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW, 1710, Australia

    Surya Nepal, Paul Greenfield, Julian Jang & Tony Shi

  2. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    Alan Fekete

  3. School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    Dean Kuo

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Nepal, S., Fekete, A., Greenfield, P., Jang, J., Kuo, D., Shi, T. (2005). A Service-Oriented Workflow Language for Robust Interacting Applications. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3760. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11575771_6

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