Factors of process model comprehension-Findings from a series of experiments

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 195-206

  Mendling, Jan ^a   Strembeck, Mark ^a   Recker, Jan ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business process modeling; Experiment; Model comprehension

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DOMAIN; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; COGNITIVE LOADS; PROCESS MODEL; SEMANTICAL INFORMATION;

SYNTACTICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84859215859     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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