FACTS: A framework for fault-tolerant composition of transactional web services

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-59

  Liu, An ^a   Li, Qing ^b,c   Huang, Liusheng ^a   Xiao, Mingjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c City University of Hong Kong Joint Advanced Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

Exception handling; Fault tolerant; Reliable Web services composition; Transaction

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; COMPOSITE SERVICES; EXCEPTION HANDLING; FAULT-TOLERANT; FAULT-TOLERANT MECHANISM; WEB SERVICES COMPOSITION; WS-BPEL;

COMPUTATION THEORY; FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 77950688994     PISSN: 19391374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSC.2009.28     Document Type: Article

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