TY - GEN
T1 - Expressiveness and understandability considerations of hierarchy in declarative business process models
AU - Zugal, Stefan
AU - Soffer, Pnina
AU - Pinggera, Jakob
AU - Weber, Barbara
N1 - Funding Information: This research is supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P23699-N23 and the BIT fellowship program.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cognitive Psychology
KW - Declarative Business Process Models
KW - Hierarchy
KW - Understandability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864268846&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_12
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783642310713
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 167
EP - 181
BT - 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.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 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
Y2 - 25 June 2012 through 26 June 2012
ER -