Towards a Foundation for Quantitative Service Analysis An Approach from Business Process Models

Recent advancements in process centric systems, the concept of Services have been adopted widely over business processes. Services which are discrete reusable functional blocks have become the choice to achieve highest order of reuse. However, key to having such services is to identify them with right objectives. Current methods and techniques for service analysis are heuristic and rely heavily on the experience and intuition of the designer. We present the prerequisite formalism for service analysis from business process models and basic quantitative metrics.