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

University of Haifa
University of Innsbruck

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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	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Number of pages	15
Volume	113
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date	2012
Pages	167-181
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_12
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering - Gdansk, Poland Duration: 25 Jun 2012 → 29 Jun 2012 Conference number: 24

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Conference	24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Number	24
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Gdansk
Period	25/06/2012 → 29/06/2012

Series	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
ISSN	1865-1348

Keywords

Cognitive Psychology
Declarative Business Process Models
Hierarchy
Understandability

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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 Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. vol. 113, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pp. 167-181, 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Gdansk, Poland, 25/06/2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_12

Expressiveness and Understandability Considerations of Hierarchy in Declarative Business Process Models. / Zugal, Stefan; Soffer, Pnina; Pinggera, Jakob et al.
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Vol. 113 Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. p. 167-181 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing).

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