We present an extension of a Petri net semantics for the Web Service Business Execution Language (WS-BPEL). This extension covers the novel activities and constructs introduced by the recent WS-BPEL 2.0 specification. Furthermore, we simplify several aspects of the Petri net semantics to allow for more compact models suited for computer-aided verification.

In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the need for inter-service compatibility analysis has gone beyond what existing service composition/ verification approaches can handle. Given two services whose interface invocation constraints are described by Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS, or BPEL), we analyze their compatibility and adopt mediation as a light weight app...

Web services composition is the ability to integrate existing services to have value added services. Workflow-based services composition is one of the approaches proposed. eFlow is one of the Workflow-based service composition approaches. The approach is strong in providing a platform for adaptive and dynamic web services composition. However, it neglects the validation of the Quality of Servic...

Web service composition refers to the creation of new (Web) services by combination of functionality provided by existing ones. This paradigm has gained significant attention in the Web services community and is seen as a pillar for building service-oriented applications. A number of domain-specific languages for service composition have been proposed with consensus being formed around a proces...

The Business Process Execution Language for Web Service, known as BPEL4WS, more recently as WS-BPEL (or BPEL for short) [1], is a process definition language geared towards Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) and layered on top of the Web services technology stack. In BPEL, the logic of the interactions between a given service and its environment is described as a composition of communication acti...

We present an extension of a Petri net semantics for the Web Service Business Execution Language (WS-BPEL). This extension covers the novel activities and constructs introduced by the recent WS-BPEL 2.0 specification. Furthermore, we simplify several aspects of the Petri net semantics to allow for more compact models suited for computer-aided verification. This technical report is the extended ...

On the one hand, Petri net models have a successful history in the modeling, simulation, and verification of workflows and business processes. On the other hand, BPEL is the de facto standard for describing and implementing Web service-based business processes. With abstract BPEL processes, BPEL can also be used as modeling language. However, being a complicated language with many syntactic con...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: Petri net Open net Operability Web service Theory of computation We study open nets as Petri net models of web services, with a link to the practically relevant language WS-BPEL. For those nets, we investigate the problem of operability which we consider as fundamental as the successful notion of soundness for workflow nets, i.e., Petri net models...

As an important means to compose independent services together to fulfill a function, service composition is widely applied in different applications. However, the process of composition is complex and error-prone, which makes a formal modeling and analysis method highly desirable. A BPEL process based on Petri net (BPEL-Net) model is presented in this paper, which is capable of capturing behav...