@inproceedings{d1d7ece1636f449fbb90fe8783d26284,
title = "Identifying and quantifying visual layout features of business process models",
abstract = "Business process models abstract complex business processes by representing them as graphical models. Their layout, solely determined by the modeler, affects their understandability. It would be beneficial to systematically study this effect and support the construction of understandable models. However, this requires a basic set of measureable key visual features, depicting the layout properties that are meaningful to the human user. The aim of this research is thus twofold. First, to empirically identify key visual features of business process models which are perceived as meaningful to the user. Second, to quantify the features into metrics, which are applicable to business process models. The paper reports an exploratory study which resulted in a set of key visual layout features. The metrics derived from these features are presented and demonstrated by applying them to example models.",
keywords = "Business process modeling, Metrics, Qualitative empirical study, Visual layout",
author = "Vered Bernstein and Pnina Soffer",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015; 16th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2015 and 20th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design, EMMSAD 2015 held at Conference on Advanced Information Syste... ; Conference date: 08-06-2015 Through 09-06-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19237-6_13",
language = "American English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "200--213",
editor = "Selmin Nurcan and S{\'e}rgio Guerreiro and Khaled Gaaloul and Qin Ma and Rainer Schmidt",
booktitle = "Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 16th International Conference, BPMDS 2015 20th International Conference, EMMSAD 2015, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}