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A web-service is a remote computational facility which is made available for general use by means of the internet. An orchestration is a multi-threaded computation which invokes remote services. In this paper game theory is used to analyse the behaviour of orchestration evaluations when underlying web-services are unreliable. Uncertainty profiles are proposed as a means of defining bounds on the number of service failures that can be expected during an orchestration evaluation. An uncertainty profile describes a strategic situation that can be analyzed using a zero-sum angel-daemon game with two competing players: an angel \(\mathfrak{a}\) whose objective is to minimize damage to an orchestration and a daemon \(\mathfrak{d}\) who acts in a destructive fashion. An uncertainty profile is assessed using the value of its angel daemon game. It is shown that uncertainty profiles form a partial order which is monotonic with respect to assessment.
J. Gabarró and M. Serna are partially supported by TIN-2007-66523 (FORMALISM), and SGR 2009-2015 (ALBCOM). Alan Stewart is partially supported by EPSRC project EP/I03405X/1 (ECHO).
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Gabarro, J., Serna, M., Stewart, A. (2011). Web Services and Incerta Spiriti: A Game Theoretic Approach to Uncertainty. In: Liu, W. (eds) Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. ECSQARU 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22152-1_55
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