A Study of Different Visualizations for Visualizing Differences in Process Models

A Study of Different Visualizations for Visualizing Differences in Process Models

Abstract

Finding differences between two processes can be a complex, time consuming, and expensive task. Our work is based on the difference graph approach which calculates the differences between two process models and – if available – their instances. In this paper we evaluate different possibilities for visualizing these differences. For this purpose we have selected some common visual properties such as color, shape, and size and evaluated these different visualizations with 31 participants through an online survey. Our results show that color coding and symbols were the preferred methods of the participants for depicting differences in a graph visualization.

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Authors
  • Gall, Manuel
  • Wallner, Günter
  • Kriglstein, Simone
  • Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
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Category
Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Other)
Event Title
34th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Divisions
Workflow Systems and Technology
Subjects
Informatik Allgemeines
Computergraphik
Event Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Event Type
Workshop
Event Dates
19-22 Oct 2015
Series Name
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISSN/ISBN
978-3-319-25747-1
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Page Range
pp. 99-108
Date
October 2015
Official URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25747-1₁₀
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