Prediction models for BPMN usability and maintainability

2009 IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 383-390

  Rolón, Elvira ^a   Sánchez, Laura ^b   García, Félix ^b   Ruiz, Francisco ^b,c   Piattini, Mario ^b   Caivano, Danilo ^d   Visaggio, Giuseppe ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE TAMAULIPAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business process models; Measurement; Regression model

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS; CONCEPTUAL LEVELS; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; MAINTENANCE TASKS; MODIFIABILITY; PREDICTION MODEL; PROCESS MODEL; REGRESSION MODEL; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COST REDUCTION; MAINTAINABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS MONITORING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449436535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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