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The Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) is an XML-based language that describes web service composition in the view point of choreography by defining their common and complementary observable behavior, where ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal [3]. However, WS-CDL does not come with formal specification, nor with official vefication tools. In this paper, we present an approach to formalize and verify choreography composition described in WS-CDL. In the first phase, we propose to use Event-B as a formal method to model choreography interactions by transforming WS-CDL entities to Event-B elements. We use the Rodin platform, in the next phase, to verify some properties of the translated model. Finally, we run an example to illustrate our approach in detail.
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Le, H.A., Truong, N.T. (2013). Modeling and Verifying WS-CDL Using Event-B. In: Vinh, P.C., Hung, N.M., Tung, N.T., Suzuki, J. (eds) Context-Aware Systems and Applications. ICCASA 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 109. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36642-0_29
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