Modeling Issues: a Survival Guide for a Non-expert Modeler

Rodriguez-Priego, Emilio; García‐Izquierdo, Francisco J.; Rubio, Ángel L.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-16129-2_26

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“…To support our classification, we extracted the wealth of information from the articles in a uniform way using reference concept maps (RCMs) [22]. RCMs are essentially a graphical representation of concepts (represented as nodes labeled with the concept name) and the meaning given to these concepts in a paper (represented as edges labeled with verbs or expressions and the originating paper).…”

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Evaluating data-centric process approaches: Does the human factor factor in?

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The Business Process Management field addresses design, improvement, management, support, and execution of business processes. In doing so, we argue that it focuses more on developing modeling notations and process design approaches than on the needs and preferences of the individual who is modeling (i.e., the user). New data-centric process modeling approaches are taken as a relevant and timely stream of process design approaches to test our argument. First, we provide a review of existing data-centric process approaches, culminating in a theoretical classification framework. Next, we empirically evaluate three specific approaches with regard to the claims they make. We had participants representative of actual users try out these approaches on realistic scenarios via a series of work- of claims behind the approaches, but also identify opportunities to further improve them. Most prominently, we found that the usability aspects of all considered approaches are a source of concern. This leads us to the insight that usability aspects of process design approaches are crucial and, in the perception of groups representative of actual users, leave much to be desired. In that sense, our research can be seen as a wake-up call for process modeling notation designers to consider the usability side-and as such, the interest of the human modeler-more than is currently the case.

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“…Following these steps, complex RCMs can be constructed in a compact way, such as that in Figure 2, which depicts the RCM of ‘model’ that was first presented in Rodriguez-Priego et al [2]. It is made up of 21 definitions that include 10 primary, seven secondary and six tertiary concepts.…”

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“…The main objective of this paper is to comprehensively explain a tool, called References-enriched Concept Map (RCM), aimed at clarifying these issues. We presented RCM in a previous work where we discussed different modelling issues [2]. To support the in-depth review of 200 references about modelling we dealt with, we needed a tool that graphically summarized the different definitions of each of the terms we covered.…”

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“…To support the in-depth review of 200 references about modelling we dealt with, we needed a tool that graphically summarized the different definitions of each of the terms we covered. In Rodriguez-Priego et al [2], because of space limitations, we could not explain in detail either all the technical features of RCM or its methodological aspects rooted in Concept Maps [3, 4] (even the name that we gave to the tool in Rodriguez-Priego et al [2] is slightly different from the one that we are using now).…”

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References-enriched Concept Map: a tool for collecting and comparing disparate definitions appearing in multiple references

Rodriguez-Priego

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2013

Journal of Information Science

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Finding and sharing a common vocabulary is a critical task for the development of any area of knowledge. However, it is very common to find heated debate in the literature on the meaning of particular terms. Different authors propose different definitions, some of them even contradictory. This situation, while enriching the scientific process, may hinder the understanding of fundamental concepts regarding a certain subject. To address this problem, we propose a technique called References-enriched Concept Maps (RCM), inspired by concept maps. RCM can be used to compare definitions and therefore improve the understanding of terms, keeping track of the publications in which the different definitions were proposed. We present a method of RCM construction as well as different metrics for analysing them. An analysis carried out using the proposed metrics allows one to find answers while also raising new questions about the discussed concepts.

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“…A closer look at MDD unveils, that it describes a means for designing and developing software at a relatively high level of abstraction. This means, that objects from the real world are mapped to abstract artifacts called models (Muller et al, 2009), (Rodriguez-Priego et al, 2010), (Muller et al, 2012). As a consequence, information needs to be omitted while modeling.…”

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