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Behavioral Attestation for Web Services Based Business Processes

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  • Masoom Alam

    (Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

  • Mohammad Nauman

    (Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

  • Xinwen Zhang

    (Samsung Information Systems America, USA)

  • Tamleek Ali

    (Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

  • Patrick C. K. Hung

    (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)

  • Quratulain Alam

    (Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

Abstract

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural paradigm that enables dynamic composition of heterogeneous, independent, multi-vendor business services. A prerequisite for such inter-organizational workflows is the establishment of trustworthiness, which is mostly achieved through non-technical measures, such as legislation, and/or social consent that businesses or organizations pledge themselves to adhere. A business process can only be trustworthy if the behavior of all services in it is trustworthy. Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has defined an open set of specifications for the establishment of trustworthiness through a hardware root-of-trust. This paper has three objectives: firstly, the behavior of individual services in a business process is formally specified. Secondly, to overcome the inherent weaknesses of trust management through software alone, a hardware root of-trust devised by the TCG, is used for the measurement of the behavior of individual services in a business process. Finally, a verification mechanism is detailed through which the trustworthiness of a business process can be verified.

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  • Masoom Alam & Mohammad Nauman & Xinwen Zhang & Tamleek Ali & Patrick C. K. Hung & Quratulain Alam, 2010. "Behavioral Attestation for Web Services Based Business Processes," International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR), IGI Global, vol. 7(3), pages 52-72, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jwsr00:v:7:y:2010:i:3:p:52-72
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