TY - GEN
T1 - A study of different visualizations for visualizing differences in process models
AU - Gall, Manuel
AU - Wallner, Günter
AU - Kriglstein, Simone
AU - Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Difference graph
KW - Instance flow
KW - Process differences
KW - Process model
KW - Visualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84952328891&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-25747-1_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-25747-1_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84952328891
SN - 9783319257464
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 99
EP - 108
BT - Advances in Conceptual Modeling - ER 2015 Workshops, AHA, CMS, EMoV, MoBiD, MORE-BI, MReBA, QMMQ, and SCME, Proceedings
A2 - Jeusfeld, Manfred A.
A2 - Karlapalem, Kamalakar
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 34th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2015 and held with in Conceptual Modeling for Ambient Assistance and Healthy Ageing, AHA 2015, Conceptual Modeling of Services, CMS 2015, Event Modeling and Processing in Business Process Management, EMoV 2015, Modeling and Management of Big Data, MoBiD 2015, Modeling and Reasoning for Business Intelligence, MORE-BI 2015, Conceptual Modeling in Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis, MReBA 2015, Quality of Modeling and Modeling of Quality, QMMQ 2015, Symposium on Conceptual Modeling Education, SCME 2015
Y2 - 19 October 2015 through 22 October 2015
ER -