Table 1: PICOC Criteria to define scope, goals, and strings.
| Criteria | Describe/Reflect |
| Population | Web services, Web services discovery, Web services recommendations |
| Intervention | Clustering, Association rules |
| Comparison | Comparison of methods, Algorithms, Datasets, and Evolution metrics |
| Outcome | Classification and comparison, Trends and future research directions |
| Context | Systematic investigation to consolidate peer-reviewed and academic research |