Modular Plans for Secure Service Composition

Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is a programming paradigm aiming at characterising Service Networks. Services are entities waiting for clients requests and they often result from the composition of many services. We address here the problem of statically guaranteeing security of open services, i.e. services with unknown components. Security constraints are expressed by local policies that service components must obey. We present here a type and effect system that safely over-approximates, in the form of history expressions, the possible run-time behaviour of open services, collecting partial information on the behaviours of their components. From a history expression, we then extract a plan that drives executions that never rise security violations. Finally, we show how partial plans satisfying security requirements can be put together to obtain a safe orchestration plan.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: IFIP
• Authors: Gabriele Costa, Pierpaolo Degano, Fabio Martinelli
• Keywords: History Expression, IFIP 2010, Open Services, Programming Languages, Security