TY - CHAP M1 - 4711 AV - public T2 - Theoretical Aspects of Computing ? ICTAC 2007 SP - 275 EP - 290 N1 - ©Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com N2 - COWS (Calculus for Orchestration of Web Services) is a foundational language for Service Oriented Computing that combines in an original way a number of ingredients borrowed from well-known process calculi, e.g. asynchronous communication, polyadic synchronization, pattern matching, protection, delimited receiving and killing activities, while resulting different from any of them. In this paper, we extend COWS with timed orchestration constructs, this way we obtain a language capable of completely formalizing the semantics of WS-BPEL, the ?de facto? standard language for orchestration of web services. We present the semantics of the extended language and illustrate its peculiarities and expressiveness by means of several examples. TI - COWS: A Timed Service-Oriented Calculus A1 - Lapadula, Alessandro A1 - Pugliese, Rosario A1 - Tiezzi, Francesco T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science SN - 978-3-540-75290-5 PB - Springer UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75292-9_19 ID - eprints418 Y1 - 2007/// ED - B. Jones, Cliff ED - Liu, Zhiming ED - Woodcock, Jim ER -