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Establishing Conformance Between Contracts and Choreographies

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Carlos Molina-Jimenez, Emeritus Professor Santosh Shrivastava

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Abstract

In a business-to-business collaborative setting, a choreography and a business contract (service agreement) are two specifications that describe permissible interactions between partners from different view points, emphasising different aspects. A choreography specification is a description, from a global perspective, of all permissible message exchange sequences between the partners. A business contract on the other hand specifies what operations the business partners have the rights, obligations or prohibitions to execute; it also stipulates when the operations are to be executed and in which order. It is naturally important to make sure that message exchanges as encoded in a given choreography conform to (are in accordance with) the contract between the partners. In other words, make sure that any message interaction permitted in the choreography will not cause a breach of the contract. The paper develops the concept of conformance between a contract and a choreography assuming that they can be modelled by Finite Automata. This approach opens the way for automatically establishing conformance by using model checking techniques.


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Author(s): Molina-jimenez C, Shrivastava S

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: 15th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)

Year of Conference: 2013

Pages: 69-78

Publisher: IEEE Computer Society

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CBI.2013.19

DOI: 10.1109/CBI.2013.19


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