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

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of Event-driven Process Chains (EPCs)
and introduces a novel definition of EPC semantics. EPCs became popular in the 1990s as …

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

The correctness of business process models is of paramount importance for the application
on an enterprise level. A severe problem is that several languages for business process …

A common task in business process modelling is the verification of process models
regarding syntactical and structural errors. While the former might be checked with low …

Designing business models is a complicated and error prone task. On the one hand,
business models need to be intuitive and easy to understand. On the other hand …

This paper presents a technique to diagnose differences between business process models
in the EPC notation. The diagnosis returns the exact position of a difference in the business …

The quality of conceptual business process models is highly relevant for the design of
corresponding information systems. In particular, a precise measurement of model …

Little is known about error probability in enterprise models as they are usually kept private.
The SAP reference model is a publically available model that contains more than 600 non …