Adopting the cognitive complexity measure for business process models

Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 236-241

  Gruhn, Volker ^a   Laue, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process models; Cognitive complexity; Complexity metrics

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY; COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY MEASURES; COMPLEXITY METRICS; GRAPHICAL LANGUAGES; RESEARCH RESULTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MAINTAINABILITY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 48049109874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COGINF.2006.365702     Document Type: Conference Paper

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