Background of Software and Business Process Modeling

Abstract

This chapter introduces the term of modeling especially in the domains of software engineering and business process management. Therefore, the general concept of modeling and the history of modeling in enterprises is subsumed and introduced. Furthermore, important and for this thesis relevant terms in the modeling domain are defined and pictured regarding their semantic correspondence. The survey in this thesis aims to be a cross-language survey over different modeling concepts. Therefore, the similarities of different modeling concepts and consequently the similarity of resulting languages are defined. In a nutshell, the following chapter shows the general view and understanding of modeling applied in this thesis.