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Bridging software design and business process investigation appears to be a crucial research problem in modern software development. With respect to the UML-based software design, a fundamental question to be answered in solving the mentioned problem, is: How to find all relevant use cases, based on sound business process modelling? The adoption of business process modelling as a basis for identification of use cases has been studied by different researchers — it has been studied how use cases could be derived based on DEMO and Petri Net business process models. The goal of the this chapter is to tackle the problem from a new perspective in order to study the appropriateness of placing a use case model on a semiotic analysis. This could be helpful for identifying strengths of semiotic models, which could be useful for deriving use cases. We consider in particular Norm Analysis to be a proper semiotic tool for this purpose. We demonstrate the derivation of use cases based on Norm Analysis by means of a case study.
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Shishkov, B., Xie, Z., Liu, K., Dietz, J.L.G. (2003). Deriving use case from business process models developed using Norm Analysis. In: Gazendam, H.W.M., Jorna, R.J., Cijsouw, R.S. (eds) Dynamics and Change in Organizations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0161-8_7
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