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Workflow: A Language for Composing Web Services

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The introduction of Web Services has a profound impact on component models. The interaction processes behind a service become integral part of the component type, and as such formally described and automatically manageable. Workflow emerges as the reference model for the description of interaction processes associated to individual web services. In the DySCo (Dynamic Service Composition) project, we investigate the use of workflow for both the modelling and implementation of composite solutions based on web services. Key aspect of DySCo is the separation between composition and coordination logic. In this paper, we discuss the composition model defined in DySCo, and a technology framework to enforce it.

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  1. University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London, UK

    Giacomo Piccinelli

  2. Hewlett-Packard Software & Solutions, 11000 Wolf Road, 95014-0691, Cupertino, CA, USA

    Scott Lane Williams

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  1. Department of Information and Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wil M. P. van der Aalst

  2. Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, Potsdam University, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Mathias Weske

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Piccinelli, G., Williams, S.L. (2003). Workflow: A Language for Composing Web Services. In: van der Aalst, W.M.P., Weske, M. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2678. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44895-0_2

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