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We seek for a small set of primitives that might serve as a basis for formalising and programming service oriented applications over global computers. As an outcome of this study we introduce here SCC, a process calculus that features explicit notions of service definition, service invocation and session handling. Our proposal has been influenced by Orc, a programming model for structured orchestration of services, but the SCC’s session handling mechanism allows for the definition of structured interaction protocols, more complex than the basic request-response provided by Orc. We present syntax and operational semantics of SCC and a number of simple but nontrivial programming examples that demonstrate flexibility of the chosen set of primitives. A few encodings are also provided to relate our proposal with existing ones.
Research supported by the Project FET-GC II IST-2005-16004 Sensoria.
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Boreale, M. et al. (2006). SCC: A Service Centered Calculus. In: Bravetti, M., Núñez, M., Zavattaro, G. (eds) Web Services and Formal Methods. WS-FM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4184. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11841197_3
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