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Appendix

Maryam Razavian and Patricia Lago

Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

{m.razavian, p.lago}@few.vu.nl

1 Overview of the Included Studies

One of the first interesting observations from the 44 primary studies is the up-
ward trend in number of publications that discuss SOA migration approaches.
There is definitely an increasing interest in the topic. Fig. 1 shows the number of
publications per year. The first paper on SOA Migration was published in 2000.
However, until the early 2003 the topic received fairly little attention. From 2003
onward, there has been an increase in the number of publications per year.

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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Number of studies 1 0 0 1 5 4 5 7 13 8

Fig. 1. Distribution of primary studies published by year

2 Distribution of Primary Studies in Migration Families

SOA Migration Families
Family Name Members Population
Code Translation Family (F1) [1–6] 6
Service Identification Family (F2) [7–11] 5
Business Model Transformation Family (F3) [12–16] 5
Design Element Transformation Family (F4) [17–27] 11
Forward Engineering with Design Element Transformation Family (F5) [28, 29] 2
Design and Composite Element Transformation Family (F6) [30–34] 5
Pattern-based Composition Transformation Family (F7) [35–37] 3
Forward Engineering with Gap Analysis Family (F8) [38] 1
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