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 Process modeling guidelines are a valuable instrument for increasing the quality of
process models. Since finding and selecting suitable guidelines are challenging, this paper …

Purpose The complexity of business environments often causes organizations to produce
several inconsistent views of the same business process (BP), leading to fragmentation. BP …

Many factors influence the creation of business process models which are understandable
for a target audience. Understandability of process models becomes more critical when size …

In cloud manufacturing, manufacturing business processes are virtualized and encapsulated
into manufacturing services. Enterprises can customize their manufacturing business …

Modularization in process models is a method to cope with the inherent complexity in such
models (eg, model size reduction). Modularization is capable to increase the quality, the …

Process model comprehension is essential in order to understand the five Ws (ie, who, what,
where, when, and why) pertaining to the processes of organizations. However, research in …

In this paper, an approach to automatic decomposition of business process models is
proposed. According to our method, an existing BPMN diagram is disassembled into …

Process maps provide a high-level overview of an organization's business processes. While
used for many years in different shapes and forms, there is little shared understanding of the …

In the current constantly changing business and economic environment, partners (ie,
individuals and/or enterprises) create Collaborative Networks to join efforts and undertake …