Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management

Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Management, 2024 - Volume 9 Issue 4, Article No: 29182
https://doi.org/10.55267/iadt.07.15406

Published Online: 10 Oct 2024

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Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) is a standard established by the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows business rules and vocabularies to be written in a formal, structured language, which facilitates communication between business analysts or clients and system analysts and developers responsible for implementing those rules in a system, in addition to allowing automated transformation to other models, such as UML and BPMN. Therefore, it is possible to use the SBVR specification to integrate the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach in the initial stages of software development. With the MDA approach being integrated into the early stages of development, it is possible to use one of its main features, Model-To-Model Transformation (M2M), to reduce costs and time and increase productivity. Research involving M2M transformations using SBVR is few, which infers that advances can still be made in this area so, there is a need to carry out further research in this area, to develop new techniques and expand the models that can be generated from an SBVR model. The objective of this article is to present a systematic review of the literature, highlighting the main works in recent years in the area of model transformations with SBVR, in order to present what were the main advances in the area and what contributions can be made to the growth of the area.

Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules SBVR Model-To-Model Transformation Model Driven Architecture MDA

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