Imperative versus declarative process modeling languages: An empirical investigation

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 99 LNBIP, Issue PART 1, 2012, Pages 383-394

  Pichler, Paul ^a   Weber, Barbara ^a   Zugal, Stefan ^a   Pinggera, Jakob ^a   Mendling, Jan ^b   Reijers, Hajo A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive Dimensions Framework; Empirical Research; Imperative and Declarative Business Process Models

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING;

COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; IMPERATIVE AND DECLARATIVE BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS; MODELING APPROACH; MODELING PARADIGMS; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODELING; PROCESS MODELING LANGUAGE; TASK TYPE;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84856573917     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28108-2_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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