Web Services have been becoming more and more important in these years, and BPEL4WS is a de facto standard for the web service composition and orchestration. In this paper, we propose a language… (More)
Transaction is a lasting debatable issue, no matter in database systems or in the new paradigm of web services. Particularly, in the context of service oriented computing, business transactions… (More)
Hybrid Event-B, initially introduced for single machines to add continuously varying behaviour to discrete change of state in Event-B, is extended to cater for multiple cooperating machines. Multiple… (More)
Complex software systems typically involve features like time, concurrency and probability, where probabilistic computations play an increasing role. It is challenging to formalize languages… (More)
The Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) is a newly developed specification for Web services composition to describe the observable behavior across multiple participants from a… (More)
As an automotive industry standard of operating system specification, OSEK/VDX is widely applied in the process of designing and implementing the static operating system and the corresponding… (More)
Faced with the increasing need for correctly designed hybrid and cyber-physical systems today, the problem of including provision for continuously varying behaviour as well as the usual discrete… (More)
New evolving internet technologies are extending the role of the World Wide Web from a platform of information exhibition to a new environment for service interactions. While new business… (More)