Lending Petri nets and contracts

BARTOLETTI, MASSIMO;CIMOLI, TIZIANA;PINNA, GIOVANNI MICHELE

2013-01-01

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Abstract

Choreography-based approaches to service composition typically assume that, after a set of services has been found which correctly play the roles prescribed by the choreography, each service respects his role. Honest services are not protected against adversaries. We propose a model for contracts based on an extension of Petri nets, which allows services to protect themselves while still realizing the choreography. We relate this model with Propositional Contract Logic, by showing a translation of formulae into our Petri nets which preserves the logical notion of agreement, and allows for compositional verification.