Authors: Andreas L. Opdahl, Patrick Heymans, Raimundas Matulevičius
Tags: 2006, conceptual modeling
Goal modelling is emerging as a central requirements engineering (RE) technique. Unfortunately, current goal-oriented languages are not interoperable with one another or with modelling languages that address other modelling perspectives. This is a problem because the emerging generation of modeldriven information systems are likely to depend on coordinated use of several modelling languages to represent different perspectives on the enterprise and its proposed information system. The paper applies a structured approach to describe a well-known goal-oriented language, KAOS, by mapping it onto a philosophically grounded ontology. The structured approach facilitates language interoperability because, when other languages are described using the same approach, they become mapped onto the same ontology. The approach thereby provides an intermediate language for comparison, consistency checking, update reflection, view synchronisation and, eventually, model-to-model translation both between goal-oriented languages and between different languages.Read the full paper here: https://www.emmsad.org/archive/2006
