Criteria and heuristics for business process model decomposition: Review and comparative evaluation

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-17

  Milani, Fredrik ^a   Dumas, Marlon ^a   Matulevičius, Raimundas ^a   Ahmed, Naved ^a   Kasela, Silva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Process model metrics; Process modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007246616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-015-0413-1     Document Type: Article

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