Blind-date Conversation Joining

Autor: Luca Cesari, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco Tiezzi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol 123, Iss Proc. WWV 2013, Pp 3-18 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-2180
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.123.3
Popis: We focus on a form of joining conversations among multiple parties in service-oriented applications where a client may asynchronously join an existing conversation without need to know in advance any information about it. More specifically, we show how the correlation mechanism provided by orchestration languages enables a form of conversation joining that is completely transparent to clients and that we call 'blind-date joining'. We provide an implementation of this strategy by using the standard orchestration language WS-BPEL. We then present its formal semantics by resorting to COWS, a process calculus specifically designed for modelling service-oriented applications. We illustrate our approach by means of a simple, but realistic, case study from the online games domain.
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