Communications of the ACM - Special issue on analysis and modeling in software development
Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling
IEEE Software
An overview of workflow management: from process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on software support for work flow management
Branching time and abstraction in bisimulation semantics
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Office Information Systems and Computer Science
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Aris-Business Process Modeling
Aris-Business Process Modeling
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
A formal framework for business process modelling and design
Information Systems
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Evaluating the Quality of Process Models: Empirical Testing of a Quality Framework
ER '02 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Research Commentary: Information Systems and Conceptual Modeling--A Research Agenda
Information Systems Research
On the Challenges of Business Modeling in Large-Scale Reengineering Projects
ICRE '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE'00)
Object-oriented modeling with UML: a study of developers' perceptions
Communications of the ACM - Why CS students need math
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook
Specification and validation of process constraints for flexible workflows
Information Systems
A family of experiments to validate metrics for software process models
Journal of Systems and Software
On the semantics of EPCs: resolving the vicious circle
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Business process management
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: Quality in conceptual modeling
Process models representing knowledge for action: a revised quality framework
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue: Action in language, organisations and information systems
Factors and measures of business process modelling: model building through a multiple case study
European Journal of Information Systems - Special section: PACIS 2004
How do practitioners use conceptual modeling in practice?
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: ER 2004
Process control-flow complexity metric: An empirical validation
SCC '06 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
What business process modelers can learn from programmers
Science of Computer Programming
Detection and prediction of errors in EPCs of the SAP reference model
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Evaluating workflow process designs using cohesion and coupling metrics
Computers in Industry
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Metrics for Process Models: Empirical Foundations of Verification, Error Prediction, and Guidelines for Correctness
Improved model management with aggregated business process models
Data & Knowledge Engineering
The refined process structure tree
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Understanding the occurrence of errors in process models based on metrics
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS - Volume Part I
What makes process models understandable?
BPM'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Business process management
A study of the evolution of the representational capabilities of process modeling grammars
CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Using software quality characteristics to measure business process quality
BPM'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management
Comparing the control-flow of EPC and petri net from the end-user perspective
BPM'05 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Business Process Management
APROMORE: An advanced process model repository
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Continuous monitoring in evolving business networks
OTM'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
Analysing the cognitive effectiveness of the BPMN 2.0 visual notation
SLE'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Software language engineering
Survey paper: Refactoring large process model repositories
Computers in Industry
Editorial: Mining business process variants: Challenges, scenarios, algorithms
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Syntax highlighting in business process models
Decision Support Systems
Querying business process models based on semantics
DASFAA'11 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Database systems for advanced applications: Part II
Analysing the cognitive effectiveness of the UCM visual notation
SAM'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on System analysis and modeling: about models
What BPM technology can do for healthcare process support
AIME'11 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Artificial intelligence in medicine
The NestFlow interpretation of workflow control-flow patterns
ADBIS'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advances in databases and information systems
Measures and mechanisms for process monitoring in evolving business networks
Data & Knowledge Engineering
BPMN: An introduction to the standard
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Efficient retrieval of similar business process models based on structure
OTM'11 Proceedings of the 2011th Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
An empirical analysis of human performance and error in process model development
ER'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Multi-abstraction layered business process modeling
Computers in Industry
Towards deterministically constructing organizations based on the normalized systems approach
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Thresholds for error probability measures of business process models
Journal of Systems and Software
On the refactoring of activity labels in business process models
Information Systems
How novices design business processes
Information Systems
SABUMO: Towards a collaborative and semantic framework for knowledge sharing
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Factors of process model comprehension-Findings from a series of experiments
Decision Support Systems
Assessing the impact of hierarchy on model understandability --- a cognitive perspective
MODELS'11 Proceedings of the 2011th international conference on Models in Software Engineering
A process distance metric based on alignment of process structure trees
APWeb'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Web Technologies and Applications
Quality indicators for business process models from a gateway complexity perspective
Information and Software Technology
Understanding business process models: the costs and benefits of structuredness
CAiSE'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Configurable process models for the swedish public sector
CAiSE'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Efficient querying of large process model repositories
Computers in Industry
Tying process model quality to the modeling process: the impact of structuring, movement, and speed
BPM'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Business Process Management
A study on the effects of routing symbol design on process model comprehension
Decision Support Systems
Business Process Model Merging: An Approach to Business Process Consolidation
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Assessing the best-order for business process model refactoring
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Icebricks: business process modeling on the basis of semantic standardization
DESRIST'13 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Design Science at the Intersection of Physical and Virtual Design
Event stream processing units in business processes
BPM'13 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Business Process Management
Efficient recovery of missing events
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Simplifying process model abstraction: Techniques for generating model names
Information Systems
Detection of naming convention violations in process models for different languages
Decision Support Systems
Querying business process model repositories
World Wide Web
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Business process modeling is heavily applied in practice, but important quality issues have not been addressed thoroughly by research. A notorious problem is the low level of modeling competence that many casual modelers in process documentation projects have. Existing approaches towards model quality might be of benefit, but they suffer from at least one of the following problems. On the one hand, frameworks like SEQUAL and the Guidelines of Modeling are too abstract to be applicable for novices and non-experts in practice. On the other hand, there are collections of pragmatic hints that lack a sound research foundation. In this paper, we analyze existing research on relationships between model structure on the one hand and error probability and understanding on the other hand. As a synthesis we propose a set of seven process modeling guidelines (7PMG). Each of these guidelines builds on strong empirical insights, yet they are formulated to be intuitive to practitioners. Furthermore, we analyze how the guidelines are prioritized by industry experts. In this regard, the seven guidelines have the potential to serve as an important tool of knowledge transfer from academia into modeling practice.