Using Propositional Logic for Requirements Verification of Service Workflow

Abstract

This paper presents a requirement-oriented automated framework for formal verification of service workflows. It is based on our previous work describing the requirement-oriented service workflow specification language called SWSpec. This language has been developed to facilitate workflow composer as well as arbitrary services willing to participate in a workflow to formally and uniformly impose their own requirements. As such, SWSpec provides a formal way to regulate and control workflows. The key component of the to-be-proposed framework centers on verification algorithms that rely on propositional logic. We demonstrate that logic-based workflow verification can be applied to SWSpec which is capable of checking compliance and also detecting conflicts of the imposed requirements. By automating compliance checking process, this framework will support scalable services interoperation in the form of workflows in opened environments.