Compensation Process

From AMWA

Compensation Process

a set of tasks to be performed to compensate for some previous behaviour, for example to undo a prior action. In loosely couple systems, this may be more flexible than traditional techniques of transaction processing such as commit-rollback or two-phase-commit.

See Michael Butler, Carla Ferreira, "A Process Compensation Language" , http://www.springerlink.com/index/g3dat5cyx157yc1v.pdf