Business process modeling plays an important role in the management of business
processes. As valuable design artifacts, business process models are subject to quality …

Complex process models can hinder the comprehension of the underlying business
processes. While several metrics have been suggested in the literature to evaluate the …

Despite that formal and informal quality aspects are of significant importance to business
process modeling, there is only little empirical work reported on process model quality and …

Complexity has undesirable effects on, among others, the correctness, maintainability, and
understandability of business process models. Yet, measuring complexity of business …

Business process modeling allows abstracting and reasoning on how work is structured
within complex organizations. Business process models represent blueprints that can serve …

In the area of software engineering, quality metrics have shown their importance for good
programming practices and software designs. A design developed by the help of these …

Business process models play an important role for the management, design, and
improvement of process organizations and process-aware information systems. Despite the …

This paper gives an extended abstract of my doctoral thesis on detection and prediction of
errors in EPC business process models (see [Men07]). 1 This research is motivated by the …

Business process modeling is an important corporate activity, but the understanding of what
constitutes good process models is rather limited. In this paper, we turn to the cognitive …

The increasing utilization of business process models both in business analysis and
information systems development raises several issues regarding quality measures. In this …