What makes process models understandable?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4714 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 48-63

  Mendling, Jan ^a   Reijers, Hajo A ^b   Cardoso, Jorge ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; INFORMAL QUALITY ASPECTS;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 38049129493     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75183-0_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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