TY - JOUR A1 - Decker, Gero A1 - Kopp, Oliver A1 - Leymann, Frank A1 - Weske, Mathias T1 - Interacting services : from specification to execution N2 - Interacting services play a key role to realize business process integration among different business partners by means of electronic message exchange. In order to provide seamless integration of these services, the messages exchanged as well as their dependencies must be well-defined. Service choreographies are a means to describe the allowed conversations. This article presents a requirements framework for service choreography languages, along which existing choreography languages are assessed. The requirements framework provides the basis for introducing the language BPEL4Chor, which extends the industry standard WS-BPEL with choreography-specific concepts. A validation is provided and integration with executable service orchestrations is discussed. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0169023X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2009.04.003 SN - 0169-023X ER -