This document discusses service-oriented analysis, discovery, and modeling approaches for SOA and cloud computing projects. It outlines techniques for analyzing services internally and externally, discovering services from various perspectives, and modeling services by generalizing or specifying their contexts and structures. The goal is to provide patterns for comprehensively analyzing existing services and planning new ones.

1. Service-Oriented Modeling Framework
Patterns for Discovery and Analysis of Services
for SOA and Cloud Computing Projects
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2. Service-Oriented Analysis Approach
Personal and Organizational Strategy
• Look in the box: Analyze internal service com-
position and capabilities.
• Look above the box: Study best practices, ser-
vice governance, and service life cycle disciplines.
• Look below the box: Perform separation of
concerns, loose coupling, and granularity analysis.
• Look out of the box: Analyze interoperability,
distribution, and relationships of services.

3. Service-Oriented Discovery Approach
Personal and Organizational Strategy
• Top-Down: Two approaches for service dis-
covery: Business Process-Driven and Attribute-
Driven
• Front-to-Back: User interface and presenta-
tion layer service discovery.
• Back-to-Front: Service discovery driven by
data artifacts.
• Bottom-Up: Service discovery based on exist-
ing architectures, applications, and technologies.
• Meet-in-the-Middle: Service discovery based
on infrastructure requirements.

4. Service-Oriented Contextual Analysis &
Modeling Approach Personal and Organizational Strategy
• Contextual Generalization: Increase service
abstraction level and contextual boundaries.
• Contextual Specification: Decrease service
abstraction level and contextual boundaries.
• Contextual Expansion: Expand service influ-
ence across an organization and widen its con-
sumer base.
• Contextual Contraction: Contract service in-
fluence across the organization and trim down its
consumer base.

5. Service-Oriented Structural Analysis &
Modeling Approach Personal and Organizational Strategy
• Structural Generalization: Increase service
internal structure.
• Structural Specification: Decrease service
internal structure.
• Structural Expansion: Expand service dis-
tribution in deployed environments across the
organization and beyond.
• Structural Contraction: Contract service dis-
tribution in deployed environments.