MPMM-BPMLs; A multi perspective meta model of business process modeling languages

Now a days, organizations have the increasing tendency to the use of business processes, thus choosing a proper modeling language is so important. Several modeling languages have been introduced in industry and academia, but this issue obstructs to select aproper language. Also, there is a large gap between business process modeling languages and their evaluation. For qualitative assessment of abusiness process modeling language, a comprehensive meta-model is needed. Meta-model offers a useful understanding of the modeling. So that by understanding the behavior of components of a meta-model can be judged a modeling language. The most important feature of a meta-modelis simplicity and completeness. In this study, a multi perspective meta-model of business process modeling languages is presented. The proposed meta-model is expressiveand it can be used for an accurate and formal evaluation.