Abstract Model‐based systems engineering (MBSE) is part of a long‐term trend toward
model‐centric approaches adopted by many engineering disciplines. We establish the need …

Abstract Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a dominant approach for
developing distributed enterprise-wide applications. Most organizations capitalize on SOA …

In the context of service-oriented architectures, quality attributes, such as loose coupling and
autonomy, have been identified that services should fulfill. In order to influence services with …

To ensure sustainable software maintenance and evolution, a diverse set of activities and
concepts like metrics, change impact analysis, or antipattern detection can be used. Special …

As software systems become more and more complex over time, software quality
accordingly becomes increasingly important. Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm …

With the increasing adoption of the web-services stack of standards, service-oriented
architecture has attracted substantial interest from the research community which has …

With the shift to a service-oriented architecture, goals concerning the IT of an organization,
such as an increased flexibility and maintainability, are expected to be attained. For this …

An important challenge in today's software development domain is to integrate diverse
development tools. In this paper we present a method that combine various modeling …

This chapter focuses on the identification and specification of services based on prior
modeled business processes and legacy systems. The resulting service interfaces and …

For achieving a flexible and maintainable IT, companies increasingly design their IT
architecture in a service-oriented manner using web services. As the effectiveness of this …