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Analyzing BPEL4Chor: Verification and Participant Synthesis

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Web Services and Formal Methods (WS-FM 2007)

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Choreographies offer means to capture global interactions between business processes of different partners. BPEL4Chor has been introduced to describe these interactions using BPEL. Currently, there are no formal methods available to verify BPEL4Chor choreographies. In this paper, we present how BPEL4Chor choreographies can be verified using Petri nets. A case study undermines that our verification techniques scale. Additionally, we show how the verification techniques can be used to generate a stub process for a partner taking part in a choreography. This is especially useful when the behavior of one participant is intended to follow the corresponding requirements of the other participants. Thus, the missing participant behavior can be generated and the error-prone design of that participant can be skipped.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Universität Rostock, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Niels Lohmann

  2. Institute of Architecture of Application Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany, Universitätsstraße 38, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Oliver Kopp & Frank Leymann

  3. Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany

    Wolfgang Reisig

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Lohmann, N., Kopp, O., Leymann, F., Reisig, W. (2008). Analyzing BPEL4Chor: Verification and Participant Synthesis. In: Dumas, M., Heckel, R. (eds) Web Services and Formal Methods. WS-FM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4937. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79230-7_4

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