Service Identification -- An Explorative Evaluation of Recent Methods

Since the advent of service-orientation various scholars have proposed methods to identify services. Some of these methods were developed as parts of proprietary SOA frameworks others were purely theoretical research. However, the task of deriving service candidates from heterogeneous inputs has not yet been sufficiently solved. Within this article an explorative evaluation of one of the most recent approaches in the field is conducted. The approach is consecutively applied to two real-world cases. Finally the current state of service identification with regard to the investigated approach is drawn and an outlook on future research is given.