Identifying refactoring opportunities in process model repositories

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 937-948

  Dijkman, Remco ^a   Gfeller, Beat ^b   Küster, Jochen ^b   Völzer, Hagen ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Business Process Model; Refactoring; Repository

Indexed keywords

ANTI-PATTERNS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; COMPLEX MODEL; HIGH PRECISION; HIGH QUALITY; IN-PROCESS; PROCESS MODEL; REFACTORINGS; REPOSITORY;

EID: 79958215565     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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