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This work describes a Version Broker Service that enables consistent management of dynamic digital resources throughout their life cycle. The service handles the association of resources with logical specifications formally expressed using an extensible logical language understood and agreed by tiers. A new version of a digital resource is considered certified only if the resource owner is able to formally prove that the new version satisfies the logical specifications, with the help of the service. A method is also described to both use formal proofs for qualifying changes (occurring either on the resource content or on the corresponding specifications), and for characterizing them through the evolution of version labels. While the resource owners may handle a fully detailed specification (called internal), the users may have a simplified view of the same resource, i.e. a particular external specification. The service we propose can manage changes consistently, in a sound manner, for both perspectives, all potential users, and change cases.
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We would like to thank Jean-Pierre Chanod for his continuous support and PERICLES partners for the creative exchanges. This research is conducted in the PERICLES project [18], a four-year Integrated Project funded under EU’s FP7.
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Vion-Dury, JY., Lagos, N. (2016). A Semantic Versioning Service Based on Formal Certification. In: Lorenz, P., Cardoso, J., Maciaszek, L., van Sinderen, M. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 586. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30142-6_3
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