TY - GEN
T1 - Aligning Business Models with Requirements Models
AU - Souza, Eric
AU - Moreira, Ana
AU - Araújo, João
N1 - This research is supported by the NOVA LINCS Research Laboratory (Ref. UID/CEC/04516/2013), and Programa Ciencia sem Fronteiras - CAPES (Ref. 99999.009047/2013-01).
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - There is a widespread agreement of the business models’ importance to represent the economic point of view of a company in a value model. Such value models are core for the successful alignment of a business and its information systems, and they can be used as input of the software requirements specification process. However, creating requirements models, such as goal-oriented models or use cases, aligned with value models is a time consuming and error-prone task. Automating the construction of more refined models from more abstract ones, can contribute to accelerate the software development cycle and increase the developer’s productivity. This paper offers a systematic approach to automatically generate goal-oriented models from value models. This is achieved by both defining conceptual mappings between value models and goal-oriented models and using model-driven techniques to define automatic transformations between both types of models. We have used our approach in several case studies and the results show that our approach reduces the requirements engineer effort to build goal-oriented models and ensure the alignment between business and IT.
AB - There is a widespread agreement of the business models’ importance to represent the economic point of view of a company in a value model. Such value models are core for the successful alignment of a business and its information systems, and they can be used as input of the software requirements specification process. However, creating requirements models, such as goal-oriented models or use cases, aligned with value models is a time consuming and error-prone task. Automating the construction of more refined models from more abstract ones, can contribute to accelerate the software development cycle and increase the developer’s productivity. This paper offers a systematic approach to automatically generate goal-oriented models from value models. This is achieved by both defining conceptual mappings between value models and goal-oriented models and using model-driven techniques to define automatic transformations between both types of models. We have used our approach in several case studies and the results show that our approach reduces the requirements engineer effort to build goal-oriented models and ensure the alignment between business and IT.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-65930-5_43
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-65930-5_43
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783319659299
VL - 299
SP - 545
EP - 558
BT - Information Systems - 14th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2017, Coimbra, Portugal, September 7-8, 2017, Proceedings
ER -