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Context and Motivation: The Business Use Case Model (BUCM) formalized in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) defines stereotypes of elements refining the UML Use Case Model for coarse-grained business processes modeling (BPM). The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) Business Process Diagram (BPD) is designed for workflow-based (i.e. fine-grained) BPM. These are frameworks that can possibly be complementary for enterprise modeling. Question/Problem: The semantically richer BPMN BPD can be used instead of UML activity diagrams for operational BPM when the BUCM is used for tactical BPM. Principal ideas/results: The common use of the BUCM and BPMN BPD requires anchoring of elements in between the frameworks to ensure traceability. Traceable models increase their overall consistency. Contribution: The paper allowed to set up traceability rules for the combined use of these frameworks.
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The only strategic elements within the BUCM are the business goal and objectives.
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It depends if, from the point of view of the modeler’s organization, the business actor is involved in a private or public workflow. Indeed, a process purely within the business actor’s organization is private and not documented (this is known as Collaboration); a process where realization requires coordination is partially public because the information and objects needed to be exchanged should be documented (this is known as Choreography), see [7].
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Wautelet, Y., Poelmans, S. (2017). Aligning the Elements of the RUP/UML Business Use-Case Model and the BPMN Business Process Diagram. In: Grünbacher, P., Perini, A. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10153. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54045-0_2
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