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A Novel Automatic Transformation Method from the Business Value Model to the UML Use Case Diagram

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Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD’2019) (AI2SD 2019)

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Abstract

Currently, in the field of the software engineering industry, end-users have become extremely requiring; consequently, this industry knew a critical evolution. In this vein, the model generation becomes an awakening and an essential step for many approaches among them we cite the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach. The Object Management Group (OMG), the founder of the MDA approach, proposes three different abstraction levels; which are the higher level, average level, and lower level. Until now, most research deal with the transformation at the average and the lowest MDA levels, while ignoring the higher level, which precisely contains the requirements’ models. Therefore, our aim in this paper is to construct a sound and more consistent higher MDA level for e-business information systems by automatically generating a higher level of functional requirements model from the Business Value model. Our source Business Value model is represented by the E3value model, whereas the UML Use Case diagram expresses the generated model. The transformation is performed automatically using ATLAS Transformation Language (ATL).

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    Nassim Kharmoum, Sara Retal, Soumia Ziti & Fouzia Omary

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Kharmoum, N., Retal, S., Ziti, S., Omary, F. (2020). A Novel Automatic Transformation Method from the Business Value Model to the UML Use Case Diagram. In: Ezziyyani, M. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development (AI2SD’2019). AI2SD 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1104. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36671-1_4

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