Paper Info
Title
Formal Definition of Measures for BPMN Models
Abstract
Business process models are currently attaining more relevance, and more attention is therefore being paid to their quality. This situation led us to define a set of measures for the understandability of BPMN models, which is shown in a previous work. We focus on understandability since a model must be well understood before any changes are made to it. These measures were originally informally defined in natural language. As is well known, natural language is ambiguous and may lead to misunderstandings and a misinterpretation of the concepts captured by a measure and the way in which the measure value is obtained. This has motivated us to provide the formal definition of the proposed measures using OCL (Object Constraint Language) upon the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) metamodel presented in this paper. The main advantages and lessons learned (which were obtained both from the current work and from previous works carried out in relation to the formal definition of other measures) are also summarized.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-05415-0_21
IWSM/Mensura
Keywords
Field
DocType
formal definition,bpmn models,business process modeling notation,measure value,business process model,bpmn model,proposed measure,current work,previous work,object constraint language,natural language,bpmn,ocl,measure,business process
Business process,Software engineering,Computer science,As is,Knowledge management,Formal description,Natural language,Business process modeling,Object Constraint Language,Business Process Model and Notation,Metamodeling
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5891
0302-9743
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis Reynoso1314.42
Elvira Rolón240.74
Marcela Genero396860.55
Felix Garcia434225.00
Francisco Ruiz518314.78
Mario Piattini64232354.63