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A Demonstration Case on Steps and Rules for the Transition from Process-Level to Software Logical Architectures in Enterprise Models

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Abstract

At the analysis phase of an enterprise information system development, the alignment between the process level requirements (information systems) with the product level requirements (software system) may not be properly achieved. Modeling the processes for the enterprise’s business is often insufficient for implementation teams, and implementation requirements are often misaligned with business and stakeholder needs. In this paper, we demonstrate, though a real industrial case, how transition steps and rules are used to assure that process- and product-level requirements are aligned, within an approach that supports the creation of the intended requirements. The input for the transition steps is an information system logical architecture, and the output is a product-level (software) use case model.

Keywords

  • Enterprise Information Systems
  • Enterprise Modeling
  • Requirement Elicitation
  • Model Transformation
  • Transition to Software Requirements

This work has been supported by project ISOFIN (QREN 2010/013837), Fundos FEDER through Programa Operacional Fatores de Competitividade – COMPETE and by Fundos Nacionais through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022674.

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  1. I2S – Informática Sistemas e Serviços, S.A., Porto, Portugal

    Nuno Ferreira

  2. CCG – Centro de Computação Gráfica, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal

    Nuno Santos & Pedro Soares

  3. Centro ALGORITMI, Escola de Engenharia, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Ricardo J. Machado

  4. School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Canada

    Dragan Gašević

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  1. Department of Management Information Technology, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

    Janis Grabis

  2. Department of Systems Theory and Design, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

    Marite Kirikova

  3. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jelena Zdravkovic

  4. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockhol, Sweden

    Janis Stirna

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Ferreira, N., Santos, N., Soares, P., Machado, R.J., Gašević, D. (2013). A Demonstration Case on Steps and Rules for the Transition from Process-Level to Software Logical Architectures in Enterprise Models. In: Grabis, J., Kirikova, M., Zdravkovic, J., Stirna, J. (eds) The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. PoEM 2013. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41641-5_20

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