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Recording Process Documentation in the Presence of Failures

Recording Process Documentation in the Presence of Failures
Recording Process Documentation in the Presence of Failures
Scientific and business communities present unprecedented requirements on provenance, where the provenance of some data item is the process that led to that data item. Previous work has conceived a computer-based representation of past executions for determining provenance, termed process documentation, and has developed a protocol, PReP, to record process documentation in service oriented architectures. However, PReP assumes a failure free environment. Failures lead to process documentation unable to be recorded, losing the evidence that a process occurred. This is not acceptable in the applications relying on process documentation and would cause disastrous consequences. This paper describes our solution, F-PReP, a protocol for recording process documentation in the presence of failures. A complete formalization of the protocol using Abstract State Machines is also presented.
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Chen, Zheng
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Moreau, Luc
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Chen, Zheng
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Moreau, Luc
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Chen, Zheng and Moreau, Luc (2009) Recording Process Documentation in the Presence of Failures. In, Methods, Models and Tools for Fault Tolerance, LNCS 5454. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)) Springer. (In Press)

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Scientific and business communities present unprecedented requirements on provenance, where the provenance of some data item is the process that led to that data item. Previous work has conceived a computer-based representation of past executions for determining provenance, termed process documentation, and has developed a protocol, PReP, to record process documentation in service oriented architectures. However, PReP assumes a failure free environment. Failures lead to process documentation unable to be recorded, losing the evidence that a process occurred. This is not acceptable in the applications relying on process documentation and would cause disastrous consequences. This paper describes our solution, F-PReP, a protocol for recording process documentation in the presence of failures. A complete formalization of the protocol using Abstract State Machines is also presented.

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Accepted/In Press date: 2009
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 266588
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/266588
PURE UUID: c9ed31c9-d5d9-4ddd-8fce-ef3712f2e1e5
ORCID for Luc Moreau: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3494-120X

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Date deposited: 20 Aug 2008 16:47
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 08:30

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Author: Zheng Chen
Author: Luc Moreau ORCID iD

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