TY - JOUR EP - 164 N1 - Proceedings of the First Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES 2008) ID - eprints408 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157106610900187X AV - public TI - A symbolic semantics for a clculus for service-oriented computing KW - Service-oriented computing; service orchestration; process calculi; symbolic semantics N2 - 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. SN - 1571-0661 VL - 241 JF - Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Y1 - 2009/// SP - 135 A1 - Pugliese, Rosario A1 - Tiezzi, Francesco A1 - Yoshida, Nobuko PB - Elsevier ER -