A Cohesion Metric for the Definition of Activities in a Workflow Process
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This paper introduces a cohesion metric that can be used for the identification of weakly cohesive activities in a workflow design. Also, a heuristic is presented that is based on this cohesion metric to decide between various workflow design alternatives. Both a theoretical and an empirical evaluation give a positive support its soundness. The inspiration for the introduced notion is derived from cohesion metrics in software engineering.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003