%P 71-105
%T Specification and analysis of SOC systems using COWS: a finance case study
%O Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV 2008)
%I Elsevier
%V 235
%A Federico Banti
%A Alessandro Lapadula
%A Rosario Pugliese
%A Francesco Tiezzi
%K Service-oriented computing; service orchestration; process calculi; logics and model checking
%X Service-oriented computing, an emerging paradigm for distributed computing based on the use of services, is calling for the development of tools and techniques to build safe and trustworthy systems, and to analyse their behaviour. Therefore many researchers have proposed to use process calculi, a cornerstone of current foundational research on specification and analysis of concurrent and distributed systems.

We illustrate this approach by focussing on COWS, a process calculus expressly designed for specifying and combining services, while modelling their dynamic behaviour. We present the calculus and one of the analysis techniques it enables, that is based on the temporal logic SocL and the associated model checker CMC. We demonstrate applicability of our tools by means of a large case study, from the financial domain, which is first specified in COWS, and then analysed by using SocL to express many significant properties and CMC to verify them.
%L eprints407
%D 2009
%R 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.03.006
%J Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science