期刊名称：Journal of the Association for Information Systems
印刷版ISSN：1536-9323
出版年度：2009
卷号：10
期号：4
页码：1
出版社：Association for Information Systems
摘要：Many business process modeling techniques have been proposed over the last decades, creating a demand for theory to assist in the comparison and evaluation of these techniques. A widely established way of determining the effectiveness and efficiency of modeling techniques is by way of representational analysis. This paper comparatively assesses representational analyses of 12 popular process modeling techniques in order to provide insights into the extent to which they differ from each other. We discuss several implications of our findings. Our analysis uncovers and explores representational root causes for a number of shortcomings that remain in process modeling practice, such as lack of process decomposition and integration of business rule specification. Our findings also serve as motivation and input to future research in areas such as context-aware business process design and conventions management.
关键词：Business process management; Process modeling; Representation theory; BWW model
