TY - JFULL AU - María Fernández-Ropero and Ricardo Pérez-Castillo and Ismael Caballero and Mario Piattini PY - 2012/7/ TI - Quality-Driven Business Process Refactoring T2 - International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering SP - 1496 EP - 1503 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/610 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 66, 2012 N2 - Appropriate description of business processes through standard notations has become one of the most important assets for organizations. Organizations must therefore deal with quality faults in business process models such as the lack of understandability and modifiability. These quality faults may be exacerbated if business process models are mined by reverse engineering, e.g., from existing information systems that support those business processes. Hence, business process refactoring is often used, which change the internal structure of business processes whilst its external behavior is preserved. This paper aims to choose the most appropriate set of refactoring operators through the quality assessment concerning understandability and modifiability. These quality features are assessed through well-proven measures proposed in the literature. Additionally, a set of measure thresholds are heuristically established for applying the most promising refactoring operators, i.e., those that achieve the highest quality improvement according to the selected measures in each case. ER -