Testing the impact of wand and Weber's decomposition model on process model understandability

35th International Conference on Information Systems "Building a Better World Through Information Systems", ICIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Johannsen, Florian ^a   Leist, Susanne ^a   Braunnagel, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Business process management; Business process modeling; Ontology

Indexed keywords

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; ONTOLOGY; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; DECOMPOSITION MODEL; MODEL UNDERSTANDABILITY; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODEL UNDERSTANDABILITY; PROCESS MODELING; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 85107712987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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