Process Models (PM) are visual documentations of the business processes within or across
enterprises. Activities (tasks) are arranged together into a model (ie, similar to flowcharts) …

Process models represent important information artifacts for organizations for
documentation, communication and collaboration. Proper understanding of such models is …

Visual process models are meant to facilitate comprehension of business processes.
However, in practice, process models can be difficult to understand. The main goal of this …

Process analysts and other professionals extensively use process models to analyze
business processes and identify performance improvement opportunities. Therefore, it is …

Context Business process models support various stakeholders in managing business
processes and designing process-aware information systems. In order to make effective use …

Business process models constitute fundamental artifacts for enterprise architectures as well
as for the engineering of processes and information systems. However, less experienced …

Over the last decade, plenty business process modeling notations emerged for the
documentation of business processes in enterprises. During the learning of a modeling …

Although (business) process models are frequently used to promote human understanding
of processes, practice shows that understanding complex models soon reach cognitive …

Abstract Models of business processes are usually created and presented using some
visual notation. In this way, one can express important activities, milestones, and actors of a …

Process modeling constitutes a fundamental task in the context of process-aware
information systems. Besides process model creation, the reading and understanding of …