Abstract
Advantages and shortcomings of different process modeling languages are heavily debated, both in academia and industry, but little evidence is presented to support judgements. With this paper we aim to contribute to a more rigorous, theoretical discussion of the topic by drawing a link to well-established research on program comprehension. In particular, we focus on imperative and declarative techniques of modeling a process. Cognitive research has demonstrated that imperative programs deliver sequential information much better while declarative programs offer clear insight into circumstantial information. In this paper we show that in principle this argument can be transferred to respective features of process modeling languages. Our contribution is a pair of propositions that are routed in the cognitive dimensions framework. In future research, we aim to challenge these propositions by an experiment.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Publication date | 2009 |
| Pages | 353-366 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 10th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 8 Jun 2009 → 9 Jun 2009 Conference number: 10 |
Workshop
| Workshop | 10th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support |
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| Number | 10 |
| Country/Territory | Netherlands |
| City | Amsterdam |
| Period | 08/06/2009 → 09/06/2009 |
| Series | Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing |
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| ISSN | 1865-1348 |