A Service-oriented Approach for the i* Framework.
Hugo Estrada, Alicia Martínez, Óscar Pastor, John Mylopoulos, Paolo Giorgini · 2008
Abstract. The i * modelling framework is widely used for organizational modeling. The framework focuses on strategic relationships between actors in order to capture the social and intentional context of an enterprise. Nowadays, many research projects exist that use the i * framework in different applications domain. However, despite well-known theoretical advantages of the i* modeling approach, there are certain issues that still need to be improved to assure their effectiveness in practice. In this paper, we propose a serviceoriented approach in order to address the detected weaknesses of i*. The business services can be used as the basic granules of information that allow us to encapsulate a set of i * business process models where actors participate in actor’s dependency networks through interfaces defined in the business service specification. 1.