Modeling Styles in Business Process Modeling

Jakob Pinggera; Pnina Soffer; Stefan Zugal; Barbara Weber; Matthias Weidlich; Dirk Fahland; Hajo A. Reijers; Jan Mendling

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_11

Modeling Styles in Business Process Modeling

Jakob Pinggera, Pnina Soffer, Stefan Zugal, Barbara Weber, Matthias Weidlich, Dirk Fahland, Hajo A. Reijers, Jan Mendling

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Abstract

Research on quality issues of business process models has recently begun to explore the process of creating process models. As a consequence, the question arises whether different ways of creating process models exist. In this vein, we observed 115 students engaged in the act of modeling, recording all their interactions with the modeling environment using a specialized tool. The recordings of process modeling were subsequently clustered. Results presented in this paper suggest the existence of three distinct modeling styles, exhibiting significantly different characteristics. We believe that this finding constitutes another building block toward a more comprehensive understanding of the process of process modeling that will ultimately enable us to support modelers in creating better business process models.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Number of pages	16
Volume	113
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date	2012
Pages	151-166
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_11
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

Modeling styles
Process of process modeling
Cluster analysis
Business process modeling

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Pinggera, J, Soffer, P, Zugal, S, Weber, B, Weidlich, M, Fahland, D, Reijers, HA & Mendling, J 2012, Modeling Styles in Business Process Modeling. in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. vol. 113, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, pp. 151-166, 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Gdansk, Poland, 25/06/2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_11

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