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A semantic approach for designing business protocols

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Business processes involve interactions among autonomous partners. We propose that these interactions be specified modularly as protocols. Protocols can be published, enabling implementors to independently develop components that respect published protocols and yet serve diverse interests. A variety of business protocols would be needed to capture subtle business needs. We propose that the same kinds of conceptual abstractions be developed for protocols as for information models. Specifically, we consider (1) refinement: a subprotocol may satisfy the requirements of a superprotocol, but support additional properties and (2) aggregation: a protocol may combine existing protocols. In support of the above, we develop a formal semantics for protocols, an operational characterization of them, and an algebra for protocol composition.

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A. U. Mallya and M. P. Singh. A semantic approach for designing e-business protocols, In ICWS-2004, To appear. July 2004.
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P. Yolum and M. P. Singh. Flexible protocol specification and execution: Applying event calculus planning using commitments. In AAMAS-2002, pages 527--534. ACM Press, July 2002.

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WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
May 2004
532 pages
ISBN:1581139128
DOI:10.1145/1013367
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  1. business process composition
  2. commitments
  3. web services

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