How much language is enough? Theoretical and practical use of the business process modeling notation

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

Volumn 5074 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 465-479

  Zur Muehlen, Michael ^a   Recker, Jan ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

BPMN; Language analysis; Process modeling

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; QUERY LANGUAGES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CO); ARBITRARY SUBSETS; AVERAGE MODELING; BUSINESS ANALYSTS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING NOTATION (BPMN); BUSINESS PROCESSES (BP); GENERAL (CO); GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; HEIDELBERG (CO); INDUSTRY STANDARDS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LANGUAGE COMPLEXITY; LANGUAGES (TRADITIONAL); PRACTICAL USE; PROCESS MODELING; SPRINGER (CO); STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; WIDE-RANGE;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 45849132040     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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