Derivation of Use Cases from the Topological Computation Independent Business Model

Abstract

Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) developed by the Object Management Group (OMG) proposes three (or at least two) transformable models for system specification. The first one is a Computation Independent Model or CIM. The CIM is a model that should eliminate the gap between business people and software developers. Two other models are a Platform Independent Model (PIM) and a Platform Specific Model (PSM). The last two models specify the system structure and behavior according to the object-oriented paradigm and definitely are transformable. This chapter discusses the CIM. This model specifies domain information: business vocabulary, business rules, business knowledge, system requirements (in a broad sense), etc. This means ABstrAct