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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Carlos Molina-Jimenez, Emeritus Professor Santosh Shrivastava
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.
Author(s): Molina-Jimenez C, Shrivastava S
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2013
Pages: 18
Print publication date: 01/04/2013
Source Publication Date: April 2013
Report Number: 1383
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/1383.pdf
