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Abstract—A constant goal of enterprises of all sizes is to align their business with IT. The major concern is to design the technology to support the desired performance goals and business values.

In e-business collaborations, services are becoming the cornerstones for modeling

the offerings of the involved parties. However, business concepts, like value
offerings, typically cannot be linked to technology levels, such as SOA and Web
services. Business value models, formulated in terms of economic values, have
been recognized as the basis for eliciting the actors in a business scenario
and their relationships. Recently, several business ontological frameworks have
been proposed to facilitate the design of business value models. Aiming towards
an MDA-aligned approach, in our study we consider business value models for
creating a service-centric Computational Independent Model (CIM). By utilizing
well-defined mappings, the model is further transformed into a UML-based system
model at the Platform Independent Model (PIM) level, capturing both the static
and behavioral specifications of elicited e-services.