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Compared to monolithic systems, microservice-oriented architectures is becoming an architectural style that is gaining more and more popularity whether in academia or the industrial world. Microservices emerged as a solution to breaking down monolithic applications into small, self-contained, highly cohesive, and loosely coupled services. However, identifying microservices remains a major challenge that could compromise the success and importance of this migration. In this article, we have proposed an association rules-based architecture to automatically identify microservices from a business process. Indeed, in this approach we have exploited the association analysis method to discover the hidden relationships between the attributes of each activity and consequently the activities which will share the same attributes will be classified in the same microservices. A case study on a bicycle rental system is adopted with the aim of illustrating and demonstrating our approach.
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Saidi, M., Daoud, M., Tissaoui, A., Sabri, A., Benslimane, D., Faiz, S. (2022). Automatic Microservices Identification from Association Rules of Business Process. In: Abraham, A., Gandhi, N., Hanne, T., Hong, TP., Nogueira Rios, T., Ding, W. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 418. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96308-8_44
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