On the Integration of i* into RUP

Altought widely used and recognized in the scientific community, the i* framework has, until now, failed to impose itself into enterprise practices. There are many ways that can be followed to favor industry-adoption. Among them, we believe that an integration into the (Rational) Unified Process, which already includes business modeling as a preliminary step in software development and furnishes custom syntax and semantic to do so could be an interesting approach. This paper summarizes the ideas of a research aimed at mapping i* model elements and RUP/UML business modeling ones with the best possible semantic match. The willingness is to provide RUP practitioners a powerful tool for capturing and analyzing social and organizational contexts of software systems based on the syntax they already know with as closely as possible related semantics.