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Guidelines of Business Process Modeling

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Process modeling becomes more and more an important task not only for the purpose of software engineering, but also for many other purposes besides the development of software. Therefore it is necessary to evaluate the quality of process models from different viewpoints. This is even more important as the increasing number of different end users, different purposes and the availability of different modeling techniques and modeling tools leads to a higher complexity of information models. In this paper the Guidelines of Modeling (GoM)1, a framework to structure factors for the evaluation of process models, is presented. Exemplary, Guidelines of Modeling for workflow management and simulation are presented. Moreover, six general techniques for adjusting models to the perspectives of different types of user and purposes will be explained.

This paper presents results from the research project Guidelines of Modeling (GoM), which was funded by the German Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Technology, project no.: 01 IS 604 A.

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Becker, J., Rosemann, M., von Uthmann, C. (2000). Guidelines of Business Process Modeling. In: van der Aalst, W., Desel, J., Oberweis, A. (eds) Business Process Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1806. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45594-9_3

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