Complexity metrics for business process models

Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-12

  Gruhn, Volker ^a   Laue, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; COMPLEXITY METRICS; GRAPHICAL LANGUAGES; RESEARCH RESULTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84882991821     PISSN: 16175468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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