Business process model abstraction: a definition, catalog, and survey

S Smirnov, HA Reijers, M Weske… - Distributed and Parallel …, 2012 - Springer
The discipline of business process management aims at capturing, understanding, and
improving work in organizations by using process models as central artifacts. Since …

Managing process model complexity via abstract syntax modifications

M La Rosa, P Wohed, J Mendling… - IEEE Transactions …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a result of the growing adoption of Business Process Management (BPM) technology,
different stakeholders need to understand and agree upon the process models that are used …

Simplified computation and generalization of the refined process structure tree

A Polyvyanyy, J Vanhatalo, H Völzer - … , WS-FM 2010, Hoboken, NJ, USA …, 2011 - Springer
A business process is often modeled using some kind of a directed flow graph, which we call
a workflow graph. The Refined Process Structure Tree (RPST) is a technique for workflow …

Business process model abstraction

A Polyvyanyy, S Smirnov, M Weske - Handbook on Business Process …, 2015 - Springer
In order to execute, study, or improve operational processes, companies document them as
business process models. Often, business process analysts capture every single exception …

Enabling personalized visualization of large business processes through parameterizable views

M Reichert, J Kolb, R Bobrik, T Bauer - Proceedings of the 27th Annual …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Process-aware information systems (PAISs) need to support personalized views on
business processes since different user groups have distinguished perspectives on these …

Criteria and heuristics for business process model decomposition: review and comparative evaluation

F Milani, M Dumas, R Matulevičius, N Ahmed… - Business & Information …, 2016 - Springer
It is generally agreed that large process models should be decomposed into sub-processes
in order to enhance understandability and maintainability. Accordingly, a number of process …

Predicting process performance: A white‐box approach based on process models

I Verenich, M Dumas, M La Rosa… - Journal of Software …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Predictive business process monitoring methods exploit historical process execution logs to
provide predictions about running instances of a process. These predictions enable process …

From process models to chatbots

A López, J Sànchez-Ferreres, J Carmona… - … Conference, CAiSE 2019 …, 2019 - Springer
The effect of digital transformation in organizations needs to go beyond automation, so that
human capabilities are also augmented. A possibility in this direction is to make formal …

Process model abstraction for rapid comprehension of complex business processes

C Tsagkani, A Tsalgatidou - Information Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Business process management has been widely adopted by many organizations,​ resulting
in the accumulation of large collections of process models. The majority of these models are …

A semantic approach for business process model abstraction

S Smirnov, HA Reijers, M Weske - … , CAiSE 2011, London, UK, June 20-24 …, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Models of business processes can easily become large and difficult to understand.
Abstraction has proven to be an effective means to present a readable, high-level view of a …