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Identification of Services through Functional Decomposition of Business Processes

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Business Information Systems (BIS 2010)

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In a layered service-oriented enterprise architecture, business processes are supported by application services which are, in turn, supported by technological services. Service-orientation promotes the reuse and modular design of information systems. But achieving these design qualities requires the business processes of an organization to be consistently decomposed so that their supporting services can be effectively identified. This paper proposes using the separation of concerns principle to facilitate the consistent decomposition of a business process and the unambiguous identification of its atomic activities thus contributing to the task of identifying the supporting services.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Artur Caetano, António Rito Silva & José Tribolet

  2. Centre for Organizational Design and Engineering, INESC INOV, Rua Alves Redol 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Artur Caetano, António Rito Silva & José Tribolet

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Caetano, A., Rito Silva, A., Tribolet, J. (2010). Identification of Services through Functional Decomposition of Business Processes. In: Abramowicz, W., Tolksdorf, R. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12814-1_13

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