14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the service specification mining module is configured to engage a human consultant based upon the request not being able to be filled automatically.
1. A system for custom-fitting a service solution to consumer requirements, comprising: a memory and a processor coupled to the memory; a service consumer module, executed on the processor, and including a conversational interface configured to interact with a consumer to acquire a request for the service solution, and a service specification mining module; a services marketplace module, executed on the processor, and including a service knowledge base having a collection of service knowledge representation items, wherein: the service specification mining module is configured to interact with the conversational interface and the service knowledge base; the service specification mining module is configure to issue a query to the service knowledge base, to obtain a set of the service knowledge representation items, to analyze each service knowledge representation item and to determine whether a custom-fit service solution can be developed; the conversational interface is configured to compute the query to be issued to the service knowledge base based on the request for the service solution, and configured to forward the query to the service specification mining module; and the service specification mining module is configured to synthesize the custom-fit service solution, to transmit the custom-fit service solution to the conversational interface, and to determine that the request cannot be fulfilled automatically by concluding that each parameter of every service knowledge representation item of the set of the service knowledge representation items is an unpluggable parameter; and a service provider module, executed on the processor, and including a service assetization module configured to assetize the custom-fit service solution, and to provide the custom-fit service solution to the service knowledge base.