Copyright Information
The documents distributed by this server have been provided by the contributing authors as a means to ensure timely dissemination of
scholarly and technical work on a noncommercial basis. Copyright and all rights therein are maintained by the authors or by other
copyright holders, notwithstanding that they have offered their works here electronically. It is understood that all persons copying
this information will adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. These works may not be reposted without
the explicit permission of the copyright holder.
Sensoria Bibliography Site Goal-Oriented and Procedural Service Orchestration: A Formal Comparison
M. Birna van Riemsdijk, Martin Wirsing
abstract:
Goals form a declarative description of the desired end result of (part of) an orchestration. A goal-oriented orchestration language is an orchestration language in which these goals are part of the language. The advantage of using goals explicitly in the language is added flexibility in handling failures. In this paper, we investigate how goal-oriented mechanisms for handling failures compare to more standard exception handling mechanisms, by providing a formally defined translation of programs in the goal-oriented orchestration language into programs in the procedural orchestration language, and proving that the procedural orchestration has the same behavior as the goal-oriented orchestration.
