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ER 2008: Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Challenges and Opportunities pp 103–112Cite as

Towards Obtaining Analysis-Level Class and Use Case Diagrams from Business Process Models

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Nowadays, business process modeling, using industrial standards such as UML or BPMN, offers us a good opportunity to incorporate requirements at high levels of abstraction. In the context of Model Driven Architecture (MDA), the business process model is considered as a Computation Independent Model (CIM). In our proposal we will transform the business process specifications into analysis-level classes and use cases, both of which are UML artifacts used to describe the problem in the context of Platform Independent Models (PIM). Such artifacts are complementary, as they are only a subset of the analysis-level classes and use cases that describe the whole problem, in the first stages of the software development process. This work contains the principle issues involved in the main standards that allow us to represent a business process, details of the transformation rules in QVT specification and an illustrative example in which our proposal has been applied.

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  1. Computer Science and Information Technology Department, University of Bio-Bio, Chillán, Chile

    Alfonso Rodríguez

  2. ALARCOS Research Group, Information Systems and Technologies Department, UCLM-Indra Research and Development Institute, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Eduardo Fernández-Medina & Mario Piattini

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  1. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  2. Dep. of Information Technologies & Systems - Escuela Superior de Informática, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Alarcos Research Group- Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Mario Piattini

  3. School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Vic, 3125, Australia

    Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

  4. Clausthal University of Technology, Julius-Albert-Str. 4, 38678, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

    Sven Hartmann

  5. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, P.O. Box, Italy

    Fabio Grandi

  6. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Juan Trujillo

  7. Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Fosswinckelsgate 6, 5007, Bergen, Norway

    Andreas L. Opdahl

  8. Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e Politiche Sociali, CNR, Via Nizza 128, 00198, Roma, Italy

    Fernando Ferri  & Patrizia Grifoni  & 

  9. IRPPS-CNR, Rome, Italy

    Maria Chiara Caschera

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  12. Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 90 rue de Tolbiac, 75013, Paris

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Rodríguez, A., Fernández-Medina, E., Piattini, M. (2008). Towards Obtaining Analysis-Level Class and Use Case Diagrams from Business Process Models. In: Song, IY., et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Challenges and Opportunities. ER 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5232. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87991-6_15

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