A Semantic Approach for Designing E-Business Protocols

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Abstract— Business processes involve interactions among autonomous partners. We propose that these interactions be speciﬁed modularly as protocols. Protocols can be published, enabling implementors to independently develop components that respect published protocols and yet serve diverse interests. A variety of business protocols would be needed to capture subtle business e propose that the same kinds of conceptual abstractions be developed for protocols as for information models. Speciﬁcally, we consider (1) reﬁnement: a subprotocol may satisfy the requirements of a superprotocol, but support additional properties; and (2) aggregation: a protocol may combine existing protocols. In support of the above, this paper develops a semantics of protocols and an operational characterization of them. This supports judgments about the potential subclass-superclass relations between protocols, which are a result of protocol reﬁnement. It also enables protocol aggregation by splicing a p...

Ashok U. Mallya, Munindar P. Singh

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