Designing and Evaluating E-Business Models
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Impact of service orientation at the business level
IBM Systems Journal
An empirical evaluation of the i* framework in a model-based software generation environment
CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A metamodelling approach for i* model translations
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Making explicit some impliciti* language decisions
ER'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Conceptual modeling
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Nowadays, there is wide consensus on the importance of organizational modelling in the definition of software systems that correctly address business needs. Accordingly, there exist many modelling techniques that capture business semantics from different perspectives: transactional, goal-oriented, aspect-oriented, value-oriented etc. However, none of these proposals accounts for the service nature of most business organizations, nor of the growing importance of service orientation in computing. In this paper, an overview of a new business service-oriented modeling approach, that extends the i* framework, is presented as a solution to this problem. The proposed modeling approach enables analysts to represent an organizational model as a composition of business services, which are the basic building blocks that encapsulate a set of business process models. In these models the actors participate in actor dependency networks through interfaces defined in the business service specification.