Aligning Communication Analysis with the Unifying Meta-model for Enterprise Modeling
Enterprise Modeling (EM) captures and represents organizational knowledge in models that cover different views of the enterprise. The models can be leveraged in the development of information systems. Investigating how to use them as input to model-driven development (MDD) is an open challenge. This paper explores how a holistic EM approach, represented by a unifying meta-model, can benefit from integrating with Communication Analysis, a communication-oriented business process modeling and requirements engineering method. As a first step towards an integrated EM-enabled MDD approach, the unifying meta-model and Communication Analysis meta-model are aligned. A set of guidelines for transforming models conforming to the unifying meta-model to Communication Analysis models are formulated. The approach is illustrated using a lab demo.