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In this chapter, we show how our model can be used to specify and verify a sequential flow of data-centric Web services. A sequential flow of services is essentially made up of a number of individual services that are executed in a specific order and are integrated by means of sequential composition, loops and conditional statements. This is a traditional service composition problem where a service consumer integrates the functionalities of two or more services in order to construct a new service that provides a more complex functionality. The challenge that we are addressing here is how to guarantee that the integration will have the intended final effect on the underlying data.
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Saleh, I. (2015). Specification and Verification of a Composition of Services. In: Formalizing Data-Centric Web Services. Web-Scale Workflow and Analytics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24678-9_5
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