In the last years, Web Service composition has undoubtedly become the most promising
way to integrate business-to-business applications. However, the industry and the academia …

The success of modernizing legacy software systems to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
depends on Service Identification Approaches (SIAs), which identify reusable functionalities …

Abstract When Service Orientation was introduced as the solution for retaining and
rehabilitating legacy assets, both researchers and practitioners proposed techniques …

Migration from a monolithic architecture to a microservice architecture is a complex
challenge, which consists of issues such as microservices identification, code …

The service‐oriented computing (SOC) paradigm has recently gained a lot of attention in the
software industry because SOC represents a novel and a fresh way of architecting …

Service‐oriented development is challenging mainly because Web service developers tend
to disregard the importance of the exposed service APIs, which are specified using Web …

Mainframe systems are facing a critical shortage of developer workforce as the current
generation of COBOL developers retires. Furthermore, due to the limited availability of public …

Previous research of our own [34] has shown that by avoiding certain bad specification
practices, or WSDL anti-patterns, contract-first Web Service descriptions expressed in WSDL …

Abstract The Service-Oriented Computing paradigm enables the construction of distributed
systems by assembling loosely coupled pieces of software called services, which have clear …

Despite being proposed as early as 1959, COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language)
still predominantly acts as an integral part of the majority of operations of several financial …