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Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

13 EADERS of Mr. Bertrand Russell's philosophical £v works know that one of his pupils before the outbreak of the war, an Austrian, Mr. Ludwig Wittgenstein, caused him to change his views in some important particulars. Curiosity can now be satisfied. The “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus “which Mr. Ogden has included in his new library of philosophy is a remarkable and strikingly original work. It is published in German and English in parallel pages. It is difficult to appreciate the reason for this, seeing that the author is evidently familiar with our language and has himself carefully revised the proofs of the translation. Also we should have liked to have the Tractatus without Mr. Russell's Introduction, not, we hasten to add, on account of any fault or shortcoming in that introduction, which is highly appreciative and in part a defence of himself, in part explanatory of the author, but for the reason that good wine needs no bush and that Mr. Russell's bush has the unfortunate effect of dulling the palate instead of whetting the appetite. In his penultimate sentence Mr. Russell says; “To have constructed a theory of logic which is not at any point obviously wrong is to have achieved a work of extraordinary difficulty and importance.” We agree, but how uninspiring when compared with Mr. Wittgenstein's own statement of aim: “What can be said at all can be said clearly, and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. 189. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc., 1922.) 10s. 6d. net.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Preface Introduction: The Role of the Reader I. Open 1. The Poetics of the Open Work 2. The Semantics of Metaphor 3. On the Possibility of Generating Aesthetic Messages in an Edenic Language II. Closed 4. The Myth of Superman 5. Rhetoric and Ideology in Sue's Les Mysteres de Paris 6. Narrative Structures in Fleming III. Open/Closed 7. Peirce and the Semiotic Foundations of Openness: Signs as Texts and Texts as Signs 8. Lector in Fabula: Pragmatic Strategy in a Metanarrative Text Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography

The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts

Business process modeling is heavily applied in practice, but important quality issues have not been addressed thoroughly by research A notorious problem is the low level of modeling competence that many casual modelers in process documentation projects have Existing approaches towards model quality might be of benefit, but they suffer from at least one of the following problems On the one hand, frameworks like SEQUAL and the Guidelines of Modeling are too abstract to be applicable for novices and non-experts in practice On the other hand, there are collections of pragmatic hints that lack a sound research foundation In this paper, we analyze existing research on relationships between model structure on the one hand and error probability and understanding on the other hand As a synthesis we propose a set of seven process modeling guidelines (7PMG) Each of these guidelines builds on strong empirical insights, yet they are formulated to be intuitive to practitioners Furthermore, we analyze how the guidelines are prioritized by industry experts In this regard, the seven guidelines have the potential to serve as an important tool of knowledge transfer from academia into modeling practice

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Seven process modeling guidelines (7PMG)

Process modelling has over the years become an essential skill in Information Systems and Business Process Management practice Consequently, more and more training programs have evolved, teaching different process modelling languages Two popular process modelling languages are being compared in this experimental study Experiment participants received extensive training in one language but not the other, leading to the expectation that learning outcomes would be better in the case of the familiar language Our study provides empirical evidence that this is not the case In fact, it is shown that participants achieved similar learning outcomes when confronted with the unfamiliar language Our results lead to a fundamental question, namely whether it is actually an important teaching decision what sort of process modelling language is being taught Our findings suggest that education and research in process modelling should focus on aspects other than the style, nature or features of languages and tools

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Does It Matter Which Process Modelling Language We Teach or Use? An Experimental Study on Understanding Process Modelling Languages without Formal Education

Business processes comprise an indispensable element of the behavior of contemporary organizations rendering Business Process Management essential. Information models are a valuable tool for providing information on business processes. As with any model, business process models serve a specific purpose. This purpose makes it nearly impossible to adequately communicate them to all user groups within an organization, because each user group has a specific perspective of business processes rendering certain aspects irrelevant. To address this problem, configurative process models can be used to provide information on business processes to different user groups in an appropriate and efficient manner. In this paper, we will outline a methodology, which facilitates the creation of configurative process models.

Configurative Process Modeling - Outlining an Approach to Increased Business Process Model Usability

Off-the-shelf packages such as SAP need to be configured to suit the requirements of an organization. Reference models support the configuration of these systems. Existing reference models use rather traditional languages. For example, the SAP reference model uses Eventdriven Process Chains (EPCs). Unfortunately, traditional languages like EPCs do not capture the configuration-aspects well. Consider for example the concept of "choice" in the control-flow perspective. Although any process modeling language, including EPCs, offers a choice construct (e.g., the XOR connector in EPCs), a single construct will not be able to capture the time dimension, scope, and impact of a decision. Some decisions are taken at run-time for a single case while other decisions are taken at build-time impacting a whole organization and all current and future cases. This position paper discusses the need for configurable process models as a basic building block for reference modeling. The focus is on the control-flow perspective. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.

Configurable Process Models as a Basis for Reference Modeling

An enhanced widget composition platform, in which code is automatically generated based on receiving a selection of at least a first service and a widget engine via the web-based widget composition platform, the code, when invoked by the selected widget engine, implementing a widget that is operable to communicate with the first service.

Enhanced widget composition platform

Process models are used by information professionals to convey semantics about the business operations in a real world domain intended to be supported by an information system. The understandability of these models is vital to them being used for information systems development. In this paper, we examine two factors that we predict will influence the understanding of a business process that novice developers obtain from a corresponding process model: the content presentation form chosen to articulate the business domain, and the user characteristics of the novice developers working with the model. Our experimental study provides evidence that novice developers obtain similar levels of understanding when confronted with an unfamiliar or a familiar process model. However, previous modeling experience, the use of English as a second language, and previous work experience in BPM are important influencing factors of model understanding. Our findings suggest that education and research in process modeling should increase the focus on human factors and how they relate to content and content presentation formats for different modeling tasks. We discuss implications for practice and research.

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Alexander Dreiling

Papers

Does It Matter Which Process Modelling Language We Teach or Use? An Experimental Study on Understanding Process Modelling Languages without Formal Education

Configurative Process Modeling - Outlining an Approach to Increased Business Process Model Usability

Configurable Process Models as a Basis for Reference Modeling

Enhanced widget composition platform

The effects of content presentation format and user characteristics on novice developers' understanding of process models