Towards thresholds of control flow complexity measures for BPMN models

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1445-1450

  Sánchez González, Laura ^a   Ruiz, Francisco ^a   García, Félix ^a   Cardoso, Jorge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

business process; indicators; measurement; thresholds

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; COMPLEXITY MEASURES; CONTROL FLOWS; CONTROL-FLOW; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; THRESHOLDS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79959313247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1982185.1982496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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