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Application of Fuzzy Logic to Assess the Quality of BPMN Models

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Modeling is the first stage in a Business Process’s (BP) lifecycle. A high-quality BP model is vital to the successful implementation, execution, and monitoring stages. Different works have evaluated BP models from a quality perspective. These works either used formal verification or a set of quality metrics. This paper adopts quality metric and targets models represented in Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN). It proposes an approach based on fuzzy logic along with a tool system developed under eclipse framework. The preliminary experimental evaluation of the proposed system shows encouraging results.

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  1. Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia

    Fadwa Yahya & Khouloud Boukadi

  2. King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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  3. Zayed University, Dubai, UAE

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  3. Wroclaw University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland

    Leszek A. Maciaszek

  4. Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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Yahya, F., Boukadi, K., Ben-Abdallah, H., Maamar, Z. (2018). Application of Fuzzy Logic to Assess the Quality of BPMN Models. In: Cabello, E., Cardoso, J., Maciaszek, L., van Sinderen, M. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 868. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93641-3_9

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