Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Applying Formal Methods to Compositionality Description of Web Service

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Applying Formal Methods to Compositionality Description of Web Service,"
by HuaiKou Miao and JunFeng Wu
in the Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services ICIW '07. pp.13-18, May 2007

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the papers cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission. The misconduct was committed specifically by JunFeng Wu, and his actions were done without the knowledge or approval of his coauthor.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following articles:

"Introducing Compositionality in Web Service Descriptions,"
by M. Solanki, A. Cau, and H. Zedan,
in the Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems,. FTDCS 2004. pp. 14-20, May 2004

"Augmenting Semantic Web Service Description with Compositional Specifications,"
by M. Solanki, A. Cau, and H. Zedan,
in the Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, ACM pp. 544 - 552 , May 2004


Web services are a relatively new paradigm for building distributed Web applications. Normally for proving properties of service compositions, and mapping the pre/post-conditions are assertions only on the initial and final states of the service respectively. They do not help in specifying and verifying ongoing behavior of a composite Web service system. We propose a formal framework for enriching composite service description with two additional assertions: assumption and commitment that facilitate compositional reasoning about services for the composition of their integration. The technique is based on Maude language, a rewriting logic based methodology in which formal modeling and analysis can be used from the earliest phases of system design to uncover many errors and inconsistencies, and to reach high assurance for critical components with runtime verification.