2013, Article in monograph or in proceedings (Conceptual Modeling - 32th International Conference, ER 2013, Hong-Kong, China, November 11-13, 2013, Proceedings)
2012, Article in monograph or in proceedings (Emerging Topics in the Practice of Enterprise Modeling)In this paper, we describe our study on the relation between formation of abstractions and aspects of executive control in the context of process modeling. We have observed and recorded three business process
modeling projects in different companies. We report on the findings resulting from the analysis of the first project. We find evidence that certain traits related to high-quality abstraction formation contribute to more structured modeling performance. Through our analysis we gain more insight in the cognitive mechanisms involved in modeling, which provides us with another step towards design of effective modeling support.