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Today reuse of business process models is becoming increasingly important. One of the proven solutions for reusing business process models is the use of repositories. Repositories should have process models and process metadata that can help users in searching, understanding, and interpreting process models. The purpose of this paper is to propose a Business Process Metadata Model (BPMM) that would facilitate a) locating process models, b) understanding and/or interpreting process models, and c) navigating a process model repository. In order to evaluate the BPMM, an empirical study is conducted to measure consistency and correctness of annotating business processes by using BPMM.
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Elias, M., Shahzad, K., Johannesson, P. (2010). A Business Process Metadata Model for a Process Model Repository. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2010 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13051-9_24
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