Declarative versus imperative process modeling languages: The issue of maintainability

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 43 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 477-488

  Fahland, Dirk ^a   Mendling, Jan ^a   Reijers, Hajo A ^b   Weber, Barbara ^c   Weidlich, Matthias ^d   Zugal, Stefan ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

cognitive dimensions framework; declarative versus imperative modeling; Process model maintainability

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS; DECLARATIVE LANGUAGES; DECLARATIVE VERSUS IMPERATIVE MODELING; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; MODELING PROCESS; PROCESS MODELING; PROCESS MODELING LANGUAGE;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 77954010897     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12186-9_45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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