relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/408/ title: A symbolic semantics for a clculus for service-oriented computing creator: Pugliese, Rosario creator: Tiezzi, Francesco creator: Yoshida, Nobuko subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science description: We introduce a symbolic characterisation of the operational semantics of COWS, a formal language for specifying and combining service-oriented applications, while modelling their dynamic behaviour. This alternative semantics avoids infinite representations of COWS terms due to the value-passing nature of communication in COWS and is more amenable for automatic manipulation by analytical tools, such as e.g. equivalence and model checkers. We illustrate our approach through a ‘translation service’ scenario. publisher: Elsevier date: 2009 type: Article type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: en rights: cc_by_nd identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/408/4/Pugliese_Tiezzi_Yoshida.pdf format: application/pdf language: en identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/408/1/cows_places_2009d.pdf identifier: Pugliese, Rosario and Tiezzi, Francesco and Yoshida, Nobuko A symbolic semantics for a clculus for service-oriented computing. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 241. pp. 135-164. ISSN 1571-0661 (2009) relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157106610900187X relation: 10.1016/j.entcs.2009.06.008