Learning from quality issues of BPMN models from industry

IEEE Software

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 26-33

  Leopold, Henrik ^a   Mendling, Jan ^b   Gunther, Oliver ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

BPMN; Business Process Model and Notation; industry study; modeling guidelines; process model quality; software development; software engineering

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

BPMN; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL AND NOTATION (BPMN); BUSINESS REQUIREMENT; MODELING GUIDELINES; OBJECT MANAGEMENT GROUPS; PROCESS MODEL QUALITIES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECTS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84977100621     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2015.81     Document Type: Article

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