Operating guidelines for services

Abstract

Abstract. In the service-oriented architecture (SOA), we distinguish three roles of service owners: service providers, service requesters, and service brokers, and the three standard operations publish, find, and bind. We provide a formal method based on Petri nets to model services. We suggest operating guidelines as a convenient and intuitive artifact to realize publish. Then, the find operation reduces to a matching problem between the requester’s service and the operating guideline. 1