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ROsWeL Workflow Language: A Declarative, Resource-oriented Approach

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Well defined business processes are a crucial success factor for deploying SOA/SOKU architectures. In this paper, the declarative business process description language—ROsWeL—which supports applications compatible with ROA, is discussed. ROsWeL provides a declarative, reliable and semi-automatic composition of RESTful web services, enriched by the knowledge representation. The paper discusses benefits of ROsWeL, and presents an example of a simple workow that captures essential ROsWeL features.

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    Jerzy Brzeziński, Arkadiusz Danilecki, Jakub Flotyński, Anna Kobusińska & Andrzej Stroiński

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Brzeziński, J., Danilecki, A., Flotyński, J. et al. ROsWeL Workflow Language: A Declarative, Resource-oriented Approach. New Gener. Comput. 30, 141–164 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00354-012-0203-y

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