Why looking isn't always seeing: readership skills and graphical programming
Communications of the ACM
Free choice Petri nets
IBM Systems Journal
Reusability and modularity in transactional workflows
Information Systems - Special issue: advanced information systems engineering
Production workflow: concepts and techniques
Production workflow: concepts and techniques
Analyzing process models using graph reduction techniques
Information Systems - The 11th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
Business process modelling with ARIS: a practical guide
Business process modelling with ARIS: a practical guide
Workflow management: models, methods, and systems
Workflow management: models, methods, and systems
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development
An Algebra for Data Flow Diagram Process Decomposition
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ICATPN '97 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
A General Framework for the Execution of Heterogenous Programs in Workflow Management Systems
COOPIS '96 Proceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
A Coupling-Guided Cluster Analysis Approach to Reengineer the Modularity of Object-Oriented Systems
CSMR '00 Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Coupling and Cohesion as Modularization Drivers: Are We Being Over-Persuaded?
CSMR '01 Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Measuring Attributes of Concurrent Software Specifications in Petri Nets
METRICS '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Synthesis and Decomposition of Processes in Organizations
Information Systems Research
Tool Support for Verifying UML Activity Diagrams
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A family of experiments to validate metrics for software process models
Journal of Systems and Software
Coupling and cohesion measures for evaluation of component reusability
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Factors and measures of business process modelling: model building through a multiple case study
European Journal of Information Systems - Special section: PACIS 2004
Process control-flow complexity metric: An empirical validation
SCC '06 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
YAWL: yet another workflow language
Information Systems
Detection and prediction of errors in EPCs of the SAP reference model
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Translating unstructured workflow processes to readable BPEL: Theory and implementation
Information and Software Technology
Web-Scale Workflow: Integrating Distributed Services
IEEE Internet Computing
Evaluating workflow process designs using cohesion and coupling metrics
Computers in Industry
Workflow management versus case handling: results from a controlled software experiment
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Semantics and analysis of business process models in BPMN
Information and Software Technology
Faster and More Focused Control-Flow Analysis for Business Process Models Through SESE Decomposition
ICSOC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Refactoring Process Models in Large Process Repositories
CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Measuring Similarity between Business Process Models
CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
On a Quest for Good Process Models: The Cross-Connectivity Metric
CAiSE '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Process Model Abstraction: A Slider Approach
EDOC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
Modularity in Process Models: Review and Effects
BPM '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management
The Refined Process Structure Tree
BPM '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business Process Management
Metrics for Process Models: Empirical Foundations of Verification, Error Prediction, and Guidelines for Correctness
The refined process structure tree
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Managing Faults for Distributed Workflows over Grids
IEEE Internet Computing
Change patterns and change support features in process-aware information systems
CAiSE'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advanced information systems 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
Polyphony: A Workflow Orchestration Framework for Cloud Computing
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
The ICoP Framework: identification of correspondences between process models
CAiSE'10 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Similarity of business process models: Metrics and evaluation
Information Systems
Meronymy-based aggregation of activities in business process models
ER'10 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Efficient Consistency Measurement Based on Behavioral Profiles of Process Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Protos 7.0: simulation made accessible
ICATPN'05 Proceedings of the 26th international conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets
Computer Science Review
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 study on the effects of routing symbol design on process model comprehension
Decision Support Systems
Understanding understandability of conceptual models --- what are we actually talking about?
ER'12 Proceedings of the 31st international conference on Conceptual Modeling
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Modularization is a widely advocated mechanism to manage a business process model's size and complexity. However, the widespread use of subprocesses in models does not rest on solid evidence for its benefits to enhance their comprehension, nor are the criteria clear how to identify subprocesses. In this paper, we describe an empirical investigation to test the effectiveness of using subprocesses in real-life process models. Our results suggest that subprocesses may foster the understanding of a complex business process model by their ''information hiding'' quality. Furthermore, we explored different categories of criteria that can be used to automatically derive process fragments that seem suitable to capture as subprocesses. From this exploration, approaches that consider the connectedness of subprocesses seem most attractive to pursue. This insight can be used to develop tool support for the modularization of business process models.