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Business process modelling is a common activity when modelling an organization during the requirements engineering process of an information system. It is a must for modelling of process-aware information systems, and it can be considered the main activity. Nonetheless, business process diagrams must be complemented with a data perspective of these systems. This paper presents a requirements engineering approach that provides methodological guidance to meet this need through the integration of two other approaches. First, functional requirements are elicited and specified from business process diagrams. Next, the information flows of these requirements are specified. Finally, data modelling is carried out by following a set of guidelines.
This work has been developed with the support of the Spanish Government under the project SESAMO TIN2007-62894 and the program FPU AP2006-02324, and co-financed by FEDER. Marcos Borges was partially sponsored by a grant from CNPq # 304252/2008-5.
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de la Vara, J.L., Fortuna, M.H., Sánchez, J., Werner, C.M.L., Borges, M.R.S. (2009). A Requirements Engineering Approach for Data Modelling of Process-Aware Information Systems. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01190-0_12
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