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Towards a Service-Oriented Methodology: Business-Driven Guidelines for Service Identification

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Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are becoming the new paradigm for developing enterprise information systems. Most of the current research on SOA is focused on implementation issues. However the need of a complete SOA methodology is clearly defined within literature. This dissertation will contribute to the emerging SOA methodology by focusing on the analysis phase of a SOA project, and more specifically on the identification of services. Following a design science approach, guidelines will be created able to translate business processes into services. These guidelines will be based upon theoretical concepts derived from a number of existing theories and approaches, and will be evaluated through its application within SOA projects.

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Van Nuffel, D. (2007). Towards a Service-Oriented Methodology: Business-Driven Guidelines for Service Identification. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops. OTM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4805. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76888-3_51

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