What business process modelers can learn from programmers

Science of Computer Programming

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-13

  Gruhn, Volker ^a   Laue, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process modeling; Modeling style; Style rules

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS (BPM); CODE TRANSFORMATIONS; EVENT DRIVEN PROCESS CHAINS (EPC);

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 33846617213     PISSN: 01676423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scico.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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