While the recently emerged Microservices architectural style is widely discussed in literature,
it is difficult to find clear guidance on the process of refactoring legacy applications. The …

The publication of the work on design science by Alan Hevner and his colleagues has
fostered much discussion on what is and what is not considered to be design science in …

Although the benefits of service orientation are prevalent in literature, a review, analysis, and
evaluation of the 30 existing service analysis approaches presented in this paper have …

Abstract Service Identification (SI) is an important phase in Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) lifecycle. Many SI challenges have been claimed in the research community that call …

Many service identification methods (SIMs) have been proposed to support the
determination of services that are appropriate for use in an SOA. However, these SIMs vary …

Various approaches for services development in SOA propose business processes as a
starting point. However, there is a lack of systematic methods for services identification …

Natural language is one of the most important means of human communication. It enables
us to express our will, to exchange thoughts, and to document our knowledge in written …

One of the major challenges for the adoption of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the
service identification phase that aims to determine which services are appropriate to be …

Many process model analysis techniques rely on the accurate analysis of the natural
language contents captured in the models' activity labels. Since these labels are typically …

Although several approaches for service identification have been defined in research and
practice, there is a notable lack of fully automated techniques. In this paper, we address the …