Title: Supporting i * Model Integration through an Ontology-based Approach.
Abstract:The i* framework is widely used for organizational modeling. It has been applied in different application domains, hence many i* vari- ants have been proposed. Sharing information and integration of m...The i* framework is widely used for organizational modeling. It has been applied in different application domains, hence many i* vari- ants have been proposed. Sharing information and integration of models expressed in i* variants imply interoperability problems. The interop- erability has been approached at different levels, e.g. through unified metamodels, or with an interchange format for representing i* models. As a preliminary step toward addressing the interoperability problem, our aim in this paper is to investigate the role of an ontology-based meta- model to realize integration of models expressed in i* variants, bring- ing the advantages of ontologies to the organizational modeling domain. We describe the ontology-based metamodel of the i* framework and the process followed to build it, exploiting Model Driven Engineering ideas. Moreover, we describe a first application of our approach to define a tool-supported process aiming at generating ontologies corresponding to models expressed in the i* language.Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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