The ontological deficiencies of process modeling in practice

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 501-525

  Recker, Jan ^a   Indulska, Marta ^b   Rosemann, Michael ^a   Green, Peter ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

BPMN; ontology; process modeling; usage behavior

Indexed keywords

ONTOLOGY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

BPMN; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING NOTATION (BPMN); EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; PROCESS DECOMPOSITIONS; PROCESS MODELING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; USAGE BEHAVIOR;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 77957236356     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.38     Document Type: Article

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