A theoretical evaluation for assessing the relevance of modeling techniques in business process modeling

ABSTRACT

Enterprise systems are an important topic for business modeling techniques currently. Due to the focus on business process and its usefulness in different business improvement methodologies, the process modeling has gained prominence in the information systems modeling area. Several modeling techniques have been proposed to fulfill the objective of systematize the business process modeling. However, to date, no guidelines exist for selecting the appropriated technique according with a specific application domain. For this reason, it is necessary to evaluate the quality of the techniques from the theoretical viewpoint to identity the capabilities to model business process. In this paper, a theoretical evaluation is proposed to evaluate techniques for business process modeling using three levels of modeling -- organizational, integration and web. The theoretical evaluation compares the modeling capabilities supplied by the different techniques. The results of the evaluation allow us to determine what modeling technique is the most appropriate to face business modeling process.

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Keywords:
business process, framework, theoretical capability