Describing the semantics of services accurately plays a crucial role in service discovery, execution, composition and interaction. Formal specification techniques, having evolved over the past 30 years, can define the semantics of software systems in a verifiable and testable manner. This paper presents a new algebraic specification language called SOFIA for describing the semantics of services. It unifies the approaches using algebras and co-algebras for software specifications. A case study with a real industry example, the GoGrid cloud's resource management services, demonstrates that the semantics of services can be specified in SOFIA.
Liu, DongmeiZhu, HongBayley, Ian
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
Year of publication: 2014Date of RADAR deposit: 2020-08-28
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