Formal modelling and analysis of business information applications with fault tolerant middleware

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, ICECCS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 68-77

  Bryans, Jeremy ^a   Fitzgerald, John ^a   Romanovsky, Alexander ^a   Roth, Andreas ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event B; Fault modelling; Service oriented architectures; Tool support; Verification

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE; FORMAL VERIFICATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

BUSINESS INFORMATION; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS; EVENT-B; FAULT MODEL; FAULT-TOLERANT; FORMAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS; INFORMATION APPLICATIONS; SOA (SERVICEORIENTED ARCHITECTURE); TOOL SUPPORT;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 70350075696     PISSN: 27708527     EISSN: 27708535     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECCS.2009.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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