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 …

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 …

In the contemporary business world, organisations engage in service systems to co-create
value. Centring around value propositions, the actors of a service system integrate their …

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 …

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables the re-engineering and migration of legacy
software systems into loosely-coupled and interoperable sets of services. Existing …

Business services are offerings that enable organizations to achieve their strategic
objectives by making their functionality accessible to their customers and business partners …

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is becoming the architectural style of choice in many
enterprises that adopt the notion of business process architecture. This suggests the need …

In service engineering, service identification plays a critical role as it lays the foundation for
the later phases. Many existing research focus on creating holistic service oriented …