TOWARDS A SUITE OF METRICS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS IN BPMN

Elvira Rolón, Francisco Ruiz, Félix García, Mario Piattini

2006

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper we present a suite of metrics for the evaluation of business process models using BPMN notation. Our proposal is based on the FMESP framework, which was developed in order to integrate the modeling and measurement of software processes. FMESP includes a set of metrics to provide the quantitative basis necessary to know the maintainability of the software process models. This previously existent proposal has been used in this work as the starting point to define a set of metrics for the evaluation of the complexity of business process models defined with BPMN. To achieve this goal, the first step has been to adopt the metrics of FMESP, which can be directly used to measure business process models, and then, new metrics have been defined according to the particular aspects of the business processes and BPMN notation.

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in Harvard Style

Rolón E., Ruiz F., García F. and Piattini M. (2006). TOWARDS A SUITE OF METRICS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS IN BPMN . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 440-443. DOI: 10.5220/0002444304400443


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis06,
author={Elvira Rolón and Francisco Ruiz and Félix García and Mario Piattini},
title={TOWARDS A SUITE OF METRICS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS IN BPMN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={440-443},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002444304400443},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - TOWARDS A SUITE OF METRICS FOR BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS IN BPMN
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Rolón E.
AU - Ruiz F.
AU - García F.
AU - Piattini M.
PY - 2006
SP - 440
EP - 443
DO - 10.5220/0002444304400443