Refactoring large process model repositories

Computers in Industry

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 467-486

  Weber, Barbara ^a   Reichert, Manfred ^b   Mendling, Jan ^c   Reijers, Hajo A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Process model quality; Process model refactoring; Process model smell; Process aware information system

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AUTOMOTIVE DOMAINS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; MODEL COMPLEXITY; PROCESS DESIGNERS; PROCESS MODEL QUALITIES; PROCESS MODELING; PROCESS-AWARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REFACTORINGS;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 79956197914     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2010.12.012     Document Type: Review

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