Visual process models are meant to facilitate comprehension of business processes.
However, in practice, process models can be difficult to understand. The main goal of this …

Purpose Business process management (BPM) has attracted much focus throughout the
years, yet there have been calls questioning the future of BPM. The purpose of this paper is …

Business process modeling is heavily applied in practice, but important quality issues have
not been addressed thoroughly by research. A notorious problem is the low level of …

Workflow nets, a particular class of Petri nets, have become one of the standard ways to
model and analyze workflows. Typically, they are used as an abstraction of the workflow that …

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 …

Few studies have investigated the factors contributing to the successful practice of process
modeling. In particular, studies that contribute to the act of developing process models that …

Compliance rules describe regulations, policies and quality constraints business processes
must adhere to. Given the large number of rules and their frequency of change, manual …

We present a technique to enhance control-flow analysis of business process models. The
technique considerably speeds up the analysis and improves the diagnostic information that …