Expressiveness and understandability considerations of hierarchy in declarative business process models

Stefan Zugal; Pnina Soffer; Jakob Pinggera; Barbara Weber

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_12

Expressiveness and understandability considerations of hierarchy in declarative business process models

Stefan Zugal, Pnina Soffer, Jakob Pinggera, Barbara Weber

Department of Information Systems

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Abstract

Hierarchy has widely been recognized as a viable approach to deal with the complexity of conceptual models. For instance, in declarative business process models, hierarchy is realized by sub-processes. While technical implementations of declarative sub-processes exist, their application, semantics, and the resulting impact on understandability are less understood yet-this research gap is addressed in this work. In particular, we discuss the semantics and the application of hierarchy and show how sub-processes enhance the expressiveness of declarative modeling languages. Then, we turn to the impact on the understandability of hierarchy on a declarative process model. To systematically assess this impact, we present a cognitive-psychology based framework that allows to assess the possible impact of hierarchy on the understandability of the process model.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 13th International Conference, BPMDS 2012, 17th International Conference, EMMSAD 2012 and 5th EuroSymposium, Held at CAiSE 2012, Proc.
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	167-181
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9783642310713
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_12
State	Published - 2012
Event	13th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2012, 17th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2012 and 5th EuroSymposium 2012, Held at CAiSE 2012 - Gdansk, Poland Duration: 25 Jun 2012 → 26 Jun 2012

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	113 LNBIP
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348

Conference

Conference	13th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2012, 17th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2012 and 5th EuroSymposium 2012, Held at CAiSE 2012
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Gdansk
Period	25/06/12 → 26/06/12

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research is supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P23699-N23 and the BIT fellowship program.

Keywords

Cognitive Psychology
Declarative Business Process Models
Hierarchy
Understandability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management Information Systems
Control and Systems Engineering
Business and International Management
Information Systems
Modeling and Simulation
Information Systems and Management

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Zugal, S., Soffer, P., Pinggera, J., & Weber, B. (2012). Expressiveness and understandability considerations of hierarchy in declarative business process models. In Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 13th International Conference, BPMDS 2012, 17th International Conference, EMMSAD 2012 and 5th EuroSymposium, Held at CAiSE 2012, Proc. (pp. 167-181). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 113 LNBIP). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_12

Zugal, Stefan ; Soffer, Pnina ; Pinggera, Jakob et al. / Expressiveness and understandability considerations of hierarchy in declarative business process models. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 13th International Conference, BPMDS 2012, 17th International Conference, EMMSAD 2012 and 5th EuroSymposium, Held at CAiSE 2012, Proc.. Springer Verlag, 2012. pp. 167-181 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing).

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Expressiveness and understandability considerations of hierarchy in declarative business process models. / Zugal, Stefan; Soffer, Pnina; Pinggera, Jakob et al.

Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 13th International Conference, BPMDS 2012, 17th International Conference, EMMSAD 2012 and 5th EuroSymposium, Held at CAiSE 2012, Proc.. Springer Verlag, 2012. p. 167-181 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 113 LNBIP).

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Zugal S, Soffer P, Pinggera J, Weber B. Expressiveness and understandability considerations of hierarchy in declarative business process models. In Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 13th International Conference, BPMDS 2012, 17th International Conference, EMMSAD 2012 and 5th EuroSymposium, Held at CAiSE 2012, Proc.. Springer Verlag. 2012. p. 167-181. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_12

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