Precise vs. ultra-light activity diagrams - An experimental assessment in the context of business process modelling

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6759 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 291-305

  Di Cerbo, Francesco ^a   Dodero, Gabriella ^a   Reggio, Gianna ^b   Ricca, Filippo ^b   Scanniello, Giuseppe ^c  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Business Process modelling; Controlled experiment; Precise and Ultra light styles; UML activity diagrams

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DIAGRAM; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; ULTRA-LIGHT; UML ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS;

EXPERIMENTS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 79960250960     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21843-9_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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