A comparative evaluation of system development methods
Proc. of the IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on Information systems design methodologies: improving the practice
An Ontological Model of an Information System
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling
IEEE Software
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Evaluation of Information Modeling Methods -- A Review
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 5 - Volume 5
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
How do practitioners use conceptual modeling in practice?
Data & Knowledge Engineering - Special issue: ER 2004
On the suitability of BPMN for business process modelling
BPM'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Business Process Management
Workflow resource patterns: identification, representation and tool support
CAiSE'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
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
Workflow data patterns: identification, representation and tool support
ER'05 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
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Selecting an appropriate process modeling language forms an important task within business process management projects. A wide range of process modeling languages has been developed over the last decades, leading to an obvious need for rigorous theory to assist in the evaluation and comparison of the capabilities of these languages. While academic progress in the area of process modeling language evaluation has been made on at least two premises, Representation Theory and Workflow Patterns, it remains unclear how these frameworks relate to each other. We use a generic framework for language evaluation to establish similarities and differences between these acknowledged reference frameworks and discuss how and to what extent they complement respectively substitute each other. Our line of investigation follows the case of the popular BPMN modeling language, whose evaluation from the perspectives of Representation Theory and Workflow Patterns is reconciled in this paper.