TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leopold, Henrik
A1  - Mendling, Jan
A1  - Guenther, Oliver
T1  - Learning from Quality Issues of BPMN Models from Industry
JF  - IEEE software
N2  - Many organizations use business process models to document business operations and formalize business requirements in software-engineering projects. The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), a specification by the Object Management Group, has evolved into the leading standard for process modeling. One challenge is BPMN's complexity: it offers a huge variety of elements and often several representational choices for the same semantics. This raises the question of how well modelers can deal with these choices. Empirical insights into BPMN use from the practitioners' perspective are still missing. To close this gap, researchers analyzed 585 BPMN 2.0 process models from six companies. They found that split and join representations, message flow, the lack of proper model decomposition, and labeling related to quality issues. They give five specific recommendations on how to avoid these issues.
KW  - process model quality
KW  - modeling guidelines
KW  - Business Process Model and Notation
KW  - BPMN
KW  - industry study
KW  - software engineering
KW  - software development
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2015.81
SN  - 0740-7459
SN  - 1937-4194
VL  - 33
SP  - 26
EP  - 33
PB  - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers
CY  - Los Alamitos
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rein, Patrick
A1  - Ramson, Stefan
A1  - Lincke, Jens
A1  - Felgentreff, Tim
A1  - Hirschfeld, Robert
T1  - Group-Based Behavior Adaptation Mechanisms in Object-Oriented Systems
JF  - IEEE software
N2  - Dynamic and distributed systems require behavior adaptations for groups of objects. Group-based behavior adaptation mechanisms scope adaptations to objects matching conditions beyond class membership. The specification of groups can be explicit or implicit.
KW  - group-based behavior adaptation
KW  - lively groups
KW  - ContextErlang
KW  - entity-component-system
KW  - predicated generic functions
KW  - active layers
KW  - reactive object queries
KW  - context groups
KW  - implied methods
KW  - object-oriented languages
KW  - software engineering
KW  - software development
KW  - contextual-variability modeling
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2017.4121224
SN  - 0740-7459
SN  - 1937-4194
VL  - 34
IS  - 6
SP  - 78
EP  - 82
PB  - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers
CY  - Los Alamitos
ER  -