(For more about the service-oriented
conceptualization process, refer to Chapters 4 and 5, which provide a step-by-step activity guide
and a set of deliverables recommended by this discipline.)
Attribution Analysis. To be able to efficiently ascertain concepts, it is necessary to scrupulously
study business requirements, problem domain statements, and product specification documents
to facilitate remedies to business or technological concerns. This inspection process requires that
we identify the various attributes that a software product must possess. Hence, the attribution
analysis process yields a set of core attributes that will be utilized to identify conceptual services.
Conceptual Services Identification. As a part of the conceptual services identification process
it is necessary to
1. Ascertain conceptual services by utilizing the core attributes set that is established in
the attribution analysis phase. This derivation process also facilitates the establishment
16 Ch. 1 Introduction
Service-Oriented Conceptualization Activities
Attribution
Analysis
Conceptual
Service
Identification
EXHIBIT 1.10 SERVICE-ORIENTED CONCEPTUAL MODELING PROCESS
of service taxonomies that can serve as organizational common language and glossary to
enable future service categorization activities.
2. Find out how concepts are related to each other in terms of their business context and
the process they embody.
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