Business Components Factory: A Comprehensive Overview of Component-Based Development for the Enterprise
Design, retrieval, and assembly in component-based software development
Communications of the ACM - Blueprint for the future of high-performance networking
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design
Consistency Analysis of Interorganizational Processes Based on Activity Diagrams
ICEBE '05 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture
Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture
A study on service identification methods for software product lines
Proceedings of the 16th International Software Product Line Conference - Volume 2
International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector
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Identifying the right-grained services is important to lead the successful service orientation because it has a direct impact on two major goals: the composability of loosely-coupled services, and the reusability of individual services in different contexts. Although the concept of service orientation has been intensively debated in recent years, a unified methodic approach for identifying services has not yet been reached. In this paper, we suggest a formal approach to identify services at the right level of granularity from the business process model. Our approach uses the concept of graph clustering and provides a systematical approach by defining the cost metric as a measure of the interaction costs. To effectively extract service information from the business model, we take activities as the smallest units in service identification and cluster activities with high interaction cost into a task through hierarchical clustering algorithm, so as to reduce the coupling of remote tasks and to increase local task cohesion.