From Goal Models to Software Products
A Conceptual Modeling-Based Approach
Oscar Pastor
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Abstract: A crucial success factor in information systems development is the alignment of the final software product
with business goals, business semantics and business processes. Developers should be freed from
programming concerns and be able to concentrate on these alignment problems. To assess that the right
capabilities are used, sound Conceptual Modeling (CM) techniques within a Model-Driven system
Development (MDD) must be applied in order to provide a structured and systematic approach to systems
development, where developers can successfully use model transformation technologies to derive models of
a lower abstraction level that can be further refined, even generating software code automatically. From the
experience got with the use of advanced CM-based MDD platforms, this keynote will show how to start from
an organizational goal-oriented (i*-based) model strategy in order to integrate Business Process Modeling
(BPM), requirements engineering, and object-oriented CM with the objective of designing a software product
that is conceptually aligned with the different types of conceptual models that have to be used in a
conventional software production process. Concrete principles, concepts and common MDD-based practices
will be presented with a special focus on model-driven requirements engineering, meaning by it how
organizational and BPM models can be embedded in a complete CM-based software production process.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Oscar Pastor is Full Professor and Director of the
"Centro de Investigacion en Metodos de Produccion
de Software (PROS)" at the Polytechnic University of
Valencia, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in 1992. He
was a researcher at HP Labs, Bristol, UK. He has
published more than two hundred research papers in
conference proceedings, journals and books, received
numerous research grants from public institutions and
private industry, and been keynote speaker at several
conferences and workshops. Chair of the ER Steering
Committee and member of the SC of conferences as
CAiSE, ICWE, CIbSE or RCIS, his research
activities focus on conceptual modeling, web
engineering, requirements engineering, information
systems, and model-based software production. He
created the object-oriented formal specification
language OASIS and the corresponding software
production method OO-METHOD. He led the
research and development underlying CARE
Technologies that was formed in 1996. CARE
Technologies has created an advanced MDA-based
Conceptual Model Compiler called OlivaNova, a tool
that produces a final software product starting from a
conceptual schema that represents system
requirements. He is currently leading a
multidisciplinary project linking Information
Systems and Bioinformatics notions, oriented to
designing and implementing tools for Conceptual
Modeling-based interpretation of the Human Genome
information.
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