A Model Driven Approach for the Alignment of Business and Information Systems Models

This paper focuses on the development of service-oriented information systems. One of the main challenges facing service-oriented computing is providing methodologies that support the specification and design of IS behavior, and allowing software engineers to move from the earlier stages of business analysis to its final step of implementation. Model Driven approaches provide with models, transformations between them and code generators to address software development. This kind of approaches provides a conceptual structure that brings together diagrams used by business managers and analysts and those used by software developers, and is capable of organizing them in such a way that the requirements specified in one diagram can be traced through more detailed derived ones. In this paper we present a Model Driven approach which deals with the alignment between high level business models (the business view) and behavioural models of the service-oriented information system (the information system view). The work presents, by means of a case study, models proposed for modeling both, the views and model transformation between them.