Business process modeling has become an important tool for managing organizational
change and for capturing requirements of software. A central problem in this area is the fact …

Business process models are becoming available in large numbers due to their widespread
use in many industrial applications such as enterprise and quality engineering projects. On …

While Business Process Management (BPM) is an established discipline, the increased
adoption of BPM technology in recent years has introduced new challenges. One challenge …

Business process modeling is an important activity for developing software systems—
especially within digitization projects and when realizing digital business models. Specifying …

This article addresses the transformation of a process model with an arbitrary topology into
an equivalent structured process model. In particular, this article studies the subclass of …

The emergence of BPMN as a standard notation to express the business processes is based
on its simplicity of notations and its exhaustive expressiveness. Nevertheless the lack of …

One can fairly adopt the ideas of Donald E. Knuth to conclude that process modeling is both
a science and an art. Process modeling does have an aesthetic sense. Similar to composing …

A core aspect of diagrammatic process modeling is the visualization of the logical and
temporal order in which tasks are to be performed in a process. While conventions and …

As BPMN spreads among a constantly growing user group, it is indispensable to analyze the
expectations of users towards the appearance of a BPMN model. The user groups are …

The layout of a business process model influences how easily it can be understood. Existing
layout features in process modeling tools often rely on graph representations, but do not …