A Service-System Based Identification of Meta-services for Service-Oriented Enterprise Architecture

Services are more and more regarded as ruling paradigm for defining enterprise architectures. Meta-services have been introduced as further dimension for defining service-oriented enterprise architectures. However, there is no method to enumerate meta-services. Therefore, a first step towards a method is made by introducing service-systems as the foundation for the enumeration of meta-services. Meta-services can be identified in a systematical way using service-systems to extend service-oriented enterprise architecture. Furthermore, the use of meta-services and service-system facilitates the management of enterprise architectures using external services such as cloud-services.