A 2800-year palaeoclimatic record from Tore Hill Moss, Strathspey, Scotland: the need for a multi-proxy approach to peat-based climate reconstructions

A Blundell, K Barber - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
Analyses of plant macrofossils, testate amoebae and humification have been carried out on
a 2800-year core from Tore Hill Moss, a raised bog in the Strathspey region of Scotland. All …

A pi-calculus based semantics for WS-BPEL

R Lucchi, M Mazzara - The Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming, 2007 - Elsevier
Recently, the term Web services orchestration has been introduced to address some issues
related to Web services composition, that is the way of defining a complex service out of …

Engineering of software-intensive systems: state of the art and research challenges

M Hölzl, A Rauschmayer, M Wirsing - Software-Intensive Systems and …, 2008 - Springer
Software-intensive systems become more and more important in our everyday lives. But
their increasing complexity makes it difficult to develop and maintain them. This chapter …

A calculus for orchestration of web services

A Lapadula, R Pugliese, F Tiezzi - European Symposium on Programming, 2007 - Springer
We introduce COWS (Calculus for Orchestration of Web Services), a new foundational
language for SOC whose design has been influenced by WS-BPEL, the de facto standard …

Choreography and orchestration: A synergic approach for system design

N Busi, R Gorrieri, C Guidi, R Lucchi… - … Computing-ICSOC 2005 …, 2005 - Springer
Choreography and orchestration languages deal with business processes design and
specification. Referring to Web Services technology, the most credited proposals are WS …

A trace semantics for long-running transactions

M Butler, T Hoare, C Ferreira - … Sequential Processes. The First 25 Years …, 2005 - Springer
A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must
be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be interrupted or …

A formal approach to service component architecture

JL Fiadeiro, A Lopes, L Bocchi - Web Services and Formal Methods: Third …, 2006 - Springer
We report on a formal framework being developed within the SENSORIA project for
supporting service-oriented modelling at high levels of abstraction, ie independently of the …

Gender-from-iris or gender-from-mascara?

A Kuehlkamp, B Becker… - 2017 IEEE winter …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Predicting a person's gender based on the iris texture has been explored by several
researchers. This paper considers several dimensions of experimental work on this problem …

Concurrent flexible reversibility

I Lanese, M Lienhardt, CA Mezzina, A Schmitt… - European Symposium …, 2013 - Springer
Concurrent reversibility has been studied in different areas, such as biological or
dependable distributed systems. However, only “rigid” reversibility has been considered …

Disciplining orchestration and conversation in service-oriented computing

I Lanese, F Martins, VT Vasconcelos… - Fifth IEEE International …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We give a formal account of a calculus for modeling service-based systems, suitable to
describe both service composition (orchestration) and the protocol that services run when …