Service-oriented logic programming

Ionuţ Ţuţu, Jośe Luiz Fiadeiro

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Abstract

We develop formal foundations for notions and mechanisms needed to support service-oriented computing. Our work builds on recent theoretical advancements in the algebraic structures that capture the way services are orchestrated and in the processes that formalize the discovery and binding of services to given client applications by means of logical representations of required and provided services. We show how the denotational and the operational semantics specific to conventional logic programming can be generalized using the theory of institutions to address both static and dynamic aspects of service-oriented computing. Our results rely upon a strong analogy between the discovery of a service that can be bound to an application and the search for a clause that can be used for computing an answer to a query; they explore the manner in which requests for external services can be described as service queries, and explain how the computation of their answers can be performed through service-oriented derivatives of unification and resolution, which characterize the binding of services and the reconfiguration of applications.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3
Pages (from-to)1-37
Number of pages37
JournalLogical Methods in Computer Science
Volume11
Issue number3
Early online date13 Aug 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Aug 2015

Keywords

  • Institution theory
  • Logic programming
  • Orchestration schemes
  • Service discovery and binding
  • Service-oriented computing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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