Constructing Comparable Business Process Models with Domain Specific Languages - An Empirical Evaluation
Becker Jörg, Breuker Dominic, Pfeiffer Daniel, Räckers Michael
Research article in edited proceedings (conference) | Peer reviewedAbstract
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the semantic building block-based approach as a means for improving comparability in business process modelling. It is described whether and why the semantic building block-based approach reduces the variations in comparison to traditional modelling approaches. Our argumentation is grounded on the assumption that business process modelling projects in large organisations have to be conducted in a distributed manner. However, the goal of these projects is to integrate single models into a consistent process landscape. This allows the organisation to mine the processes for potential improvements. A lack of comparability could deteriorate the quality of the process landscape and the analysis performed on its basis. In a laboratory experiment the variations of distributed process modelling in the traditional and the building block-based approach have been compared. Results indicate that the semantic building block-based approach leads to considerably fewer variations between business process models and, thus, improves the comparability of them.
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Authors from the University of Münster
| Becker, Jörg | Chair of Information Systems and Information Management (IS) |
| Breuker, Dominic | Chair of Information Systems and Information Management (IS) |
| Pfeiffer, Daniel | Chair of Information Systems and Information Management (IS) |
| Räckers, Michael | Chair of Information Systems and Information Management (IS) |
Projects the publication originates from
Process identification and clustering for transparency in reorganising public administrations (PICTURE) Duration: 01/02/2006 - 31/01/2009 Funded by: EC FP 6 - Specific Targeted Research Projects Type of project: EU-project hosted outside University of Münster |
Promotionen, aus denen die Publikation resultiert
| Domänenspezifisches Prozessmanagement – Konzeption und Evaluation einer Prozessmodellierungs- und -analysemethode für die öffentliche Verwaltung Candidate: Räckers, Michael | Supervisors: Becker, Jörg; Müller-Funk, Ulrich Period of time: 01/05/2006 - 13/01/2010 Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster |