Everything about Business Process Model and Notation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Business Process Model and NotationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Evaluating user acceptance of knowledge-intensive business process modeling languagesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: R Programming and Its Applications in Financial MathematicsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Business process modeling languagesCited 126 times
5. Go sideways: Business process modelingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: ARIS ExpressA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Business process modeling languages

  Hafedh Mili, Guy Tremblay, Guitta Bou Jaoude · 2010 · ACM Computing Surveys · 126 citations

• Evaluating large language models on business process modeling: framework, benchmark, and self-improvement analysis

  Humam Kourani, Alessandro Berti, Daniel Schuster · 2025 · Software and Systems Modeling · 44 citations

• A visual language for modeling multiple perspectives of business process compliance rules

  David Knuplesch, Manfred Reichert · 2016 · Software & Systems Modeling · 30 citations

• Business process modeling language selection for research modelers

  Siamak Farshidi, Izaak Beer Kwantes, Slinger Jansen · 2023 · Software and Systems Modeling · 17 citations

• Comparative analysis of business rules and business process modeling languages

  Audrius Rima, Olegas Vasilecas, Aidas Šmaižys · 2013 · Computational Science and Techniques · 6 citations

• Assessing the business process modeling competences of large language models

  Chantale Lauer, Peter Pfeiffer, Alexander Rombach · 2026 · Information Systems · 4 citations

• A Synthesis of Natural Language, Semantic Networks, and Objects for Business Process Modeling

  Shouhong Wang · 1997 · Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration · 4 citations

• Iterative Requirements-Driven Business Process Modeling and Verification with Large Language Models

  Heng Xie, Feng Ni, Jiang Liu · 2026 · Applied Sciences · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Evaluating user acceptance of knowledge-intensive business process modeling languages

  Amin Jalali · 2023 · Software and Systems Modeling · 11 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕R Programming and Its Applications in Financial MathematicsDaisuke Yoshikawa, Shuichi Ohsaki · 2018
• Basketball Data SciencePaola Zuccolotto, Marica Manisera · 2020
• Data science from scratchJoel Grus · 2015
• Modeling Techniques in Predictive AnalyticsThomas W. Miller · 2013
• Financial Modeling Using C++Chandan Sengupta · 2007
• Financial instrument pricing using C++Daniel J Duffy · 2004
• Business processesDaniel Deutch · 2012
• 📕User guide and applications for the TRS-80 model 100 portable computerSteven A. Schwartz · 1984

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