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Web Services and Formal Methods

9th International Workshop, WS-FM 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, September 6-7, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7843)

Part of the book sub series: Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)

Conference series link(s): WS-FM: International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods

Conference proceedings info: WS-FM 2012.

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Table of contents (9 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Papers

    1. Formal Approaches for Synthesis of Web Service Business Protocols

      • Lhouari Nourine, Farouk Toumani
      Pages 1-15
    2. Contract-Oriented Services

      • Emilio Tuosto
      Pages 16-29
  3. Web Service Modeling and Analysis with Petri Nets and CSP

    1. Service Discovery with Cost Thresholds

      • Jan Sürmeli
      Pages 30-48
    2. Conformance Checking of Services Using the Best Matching Private View

      • Richard Müller, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Christian Stahl
      Pages 49-68
    3. Event Structures as a Foundation for Process Model Differencing, Part 1: Acyclic processes

      • Abel Armas-Cervantes, Luciano García-Bañuelos, Marlon Dumas
      Pages 69-86
    4. Formal Modeling and Analysis of the REST Architecture Using CSP

      • Xi Wu, Yue Zhang, Huibiao Zhu, Yongxin Zhao, Zailiang Sun, Peng Liu
      Pages 87-102
  4. Formal Methods Applied to Service Discovery and Coordination

    1. SiteHopper: Abstracting Navigation State Machines for the Efficient Verification of Web Applications

      • Guillaume Demarty, Fabien Maronnaud, Gabriel Le Breton, Sylvain Hallé
      Pages 103-117
    2. Preference and Similarity-Based Behavioral Discovery of Services

      • Farhad Arbab, Francesco Santini
      Pages 118-133
    3. Reconfiguration Mechanisms for Service Coordination

      • Nuno Oliveira, Luís S. Barbosa
      Pages 134-149
  5. Back Matter

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About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods, WS-FM 2012, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in September 2012. The 9 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. They cover aspects such as the modeling and analysis of web services, service discovery, and service coordination with formal methods like BPEL, CSP, Maude, and Petri nets.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ISTI–CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Maurice H. Beek

  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Niels Lohmann

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