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Process technology is widely adopted for composition of web services. On-demand composition of web services by a large number of small businesses or even end-users, however, calls for a peer-to-peer approach for process executions. We propose a lightweight process-aware component of middleware for peer-to-peer execution of processes. The approach is of continuation-passing style, where continuations, or the reminder of executions, are passed along with messages for process execution. Conducting the execution of a process is a series of local operations rather than global coordination. Two continuations are associated with an execution: a success continuation and a failure continuation. Recovery plans for processes are automatically generated at runtime and attached to failure continuations.
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Yu, W. (2007). Toward a Lightweight Process-Aware Middleware. In: Chang, K.CC., et al. Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management. APWeb WAIM 2007 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4537. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72909-9_53
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