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Separating Operational and Control Behaviors: A New Approach to Web Services Modeling
May/June 2010 (vol. 14 no. 3)
pp. 68-76
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Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Jamal Bentahar, Khouloud Boukadi, "Separating Operational and Control Behaviors: A New Approach to Web Services Modeling," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 68-76, May/June, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIC.2010.78,
author = {Quan Z. Sheng and Zakaria Maamar and Hamdi Yahyaoui and Jamal Bentahar and Khouloud Boukadi},
title = {Separating Operational and Control Behaviors: A New Approach to Web Services Modeling},
journal ={IEEE Internet Computing},
volume = {14},
number = {3},
issn = {1089-7801},
year = {2010},
pages = {68-76},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2010.78},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Internet Computing
TI - Separating Operational and Control Behaviors: A New Approach to Web Services Modeling
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A1 - Zakaria Maamar,
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A1 - Jamal Bentahar,
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Quan Z. Sheng, University of Adelaide
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
Hamdi Yahyaoui, Kuwait University
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Montreal
Khouloud Boukadi, University of Blaise Pascal
The ability to develop flexible business applications is one of the ultimate objectives behind the use of Web services. Before taking part in such applications, each Web service should be modeled so that service engineers can monitor its execution and identify and address design problems early on. The authors propose a novel approach for modeling Web services that distinguishes operational behavior, which defines the business logic underpinning the Web service's functioning, and control behavior, which guides the operational behavior's execution progress by identifying the actions to take and the constraints to satisfy. The authors' prototype system assists service engineers in specifying, enforcing, and monitoring these behaviors, thereby achieving a better design.

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Index Terms:
Web service, control behavior, operational behavior, conversation
Citation:
Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Jamal Bentahar, Khouloud Boukadi, "Separating Operational and Control Behaviors: A New Approach to Web Services Modeling," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 68-76, May-June 2010, doi:10.1109/MIC.2010.78
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