Temporal conformance of federated choreographies

Abstract

Web service composition is a new way for implementing business processes. In particular, a choreography supports modeling and enactment of interorganizational business processes consisting of autonomous organizations. Temporal constraints are important quality criteria. We propose a technique for modeling temporal constraints in choreographies and orchestrations, checking whether the orchestrations satisfy the temporal constraints of a choreography and compute internal deadlines for the activities in an interorganizational workflow. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.