Formalizing WSBPEL Business Processes using Process Algebra

J. Cámara, C. Canal, J. Cubo, A. Vallecillo

CONCUR’2005 Workshop on the Foundations of Coordination Languages and Software Architectures (FOCLASA’05)

San Francisco (United States), August 2005

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier, vol. 154(1):159–173, Elsevier, 2006, ISSN 1571-0661

Abstract

Industry standards for Web Service composition, such as WSBPEL, provide the notation and additional control mechanisms for the execution of business processes in Web Service collaborations. However, these standards do not provide support for checking interesting properties related to Web Service and process behaviour. In an attempt to fill this gap, we describe a formalization of WSBPEL business processes, that adds protocol information to the specifications of interacting Web Services, and uses a process algebra to model their dynamic behaviour —thus enabling their formal analysis and the inference of relevant properties of the systems being built. (Draft)