Styles in business process modeling: an exploration and a model

• DOI: 10.1007/s10270-013-0349-1
• Publication Date: 2013-05-28T13:16:40Z
• Authors: Jakob Pinggera; Pnina Soffer; Dirk Fahland; Matthias Weidlich; Stefan Zugal; Barbara Weber; Hajo A. Reijers; Jan Mendling
• Keywords: Process modeling; Artifact (error); Conceptual model; Business process discovery; Modeling language

Business process models are an important means to design, analyze, implement, and control business processes. As with every type of conceptual model, a model has meet certain syntactic, semantic, pragmatic quality requirements be value. For many years, such aspects were investigated by centering on the properties artifact itself. Only recently, creation is considered as factor that influences resulting model’s quality. Our work contributes this stream research presents explorative analysis modeling (PPM). We report two large-scale sessions involving 115 students. In these sessions, act creation, i.e., PPM, was automatically recorded. conducted cluster data identified three distinct styles modeling. Further, we how both task- modeler-specific factors influence particular those styles. Based thereupon, propose captures our insights. It lays foundations for future may unveil high-quality can established through better support instruction.