%0 Journal Article %1 soderstrom02framework %A Söderström, Eva %A Andersson, Birger %A Johannesson, Paul %A Perjons, Erik %A Wangler, Benkt %D 2002 %J Advanced Information Systems Engineering %K research.bizInt.bpm cites.pclass research.conceptual.graphs %P 600--611 %T Towards a Framework for Comparing Process Modelling Languages %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47961-9_41 %X The increasing interest in process engineering and application integration has resulted in the appearance of various new processmodelling languages. Understanding and comparing such languages has therefore become a major problem in information systemsresearch and development. We suggest a framework to solve this problem involving several instruments: a general process meta-modelwith a table, an analysis of the event concept, and a classification of concepts according to the interrogative pronouns:what, how, why, who, when, and where. This framework can be used for several purposes, such as translating between languagesor verifying that relevant organisational aspects have been captured. To validate the framework, three different process modellinglanguages have been compared: Business Modelling Language (BML), Event-driven Process Chains (EPC) and UML State Diagrams.

@article{soderstrom02framework, abstract = {The increasing interest in process engineering and application integration has resulted in the appearance of various new processmodelling languages. Understanding and comparing such languages has therefore become a major problem in information systemsresearch and development. We suggest a framework to solve this problem involving several instruments: a general process meta-modelwith a table, an analysis of the event concept, and a classification of concepts according to the interrogative pronouns:what, how, why, who, when, and where. This framework can be used for several purposes, such as translating between languagesor verifying that relevant organisational aspects have been captured. To validate the framework, three different process modellinglanguages have been compared: Business Modelling Language (BML), Event-driven Process Chains (EPC) and UML State Diagrams.}, added-at = {2010-10-07T11:07:23.000+0200}, author = {Söderström, Eva and Andersson, Birger and Johannesson, Paul and Perjons, Erik and Wangler, Benkt}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25c31d3e85e1a2fd0715d02ac74c17792/msn}, interhash = {552edce480317b7ad6419cb3ad156665}, intrahash = {5c31d3e85e1a2fd0715d02ac74c17792}, journal = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering}, keywords = {research.bizInt.bpm cites.pclass research.conceptual.graphs}, pages = {600--611}, timestamp = {2010-10-07T11:07:24.000+0200}, title = {Towards a Framework for Comparing Process Modelling Languages}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47961-9_41}, year = 2002 }