Service Derivation from Process Models

Abstract

Service-oriented Architecture has been discussed for roughly a decade as a concept to increase the agility of a company in providing goods and services to external partners and organizing internal operations. Consequently, a plethora of approaches to service derivation have been defined in the past. A core problem is that many of these approaches lack methodological detail, and that none of them considers the consequent support using automatic analysis techniques. Hence, they do not scale up to the size of a whole company.