An ATL transformation from natural language requirements models to business models of a MDA project

Abstract

MDA is a software development framework where the core is a set of automatic transformations of models. One of these models, the CIM (Computer Independent Model), is used to define the business process model. Though a complete automatic construction of the CIM is not possible, we have proposed the integration of some natural language requirements models and we have defined a strategy to derive a CIM from these models. In this paper, we present an ATL transformation that implements this strategy to obtain a UML class diagram representing a preliminary CIM from requirements models. This transformation fits with MDA approach.