Business process model similarity as a proxy for group consensus

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 92 LNBIP, Issue , 2011, Pages 12-24

  Rittgen, Peter ^a,b  

^a VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Business process modeling; group consensus; mental model; model similarity; view; visualization

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISUALIZATION;

BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; GROUP CONSENSUS; GROUP MEMBERS; GROUP PROCESS; MENTAL MODEL; VIEW;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 80655142527     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24849-8_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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