Stefan Zugal
Contact
| Stefan.Zugal(at)uibk.ac.at | |
| fon | +43 (0) 512 507 6436 |
| fax | +43 (0) 512 507 9871 |
| office | ICT Building # Room 3N11 Technikerstr. 21a 6020 Innsbruck Austria |
| web | www.zugal.info |
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Research Interests
Projects
Public Talks/Presentations
- Applying Cognitive Psychology for Improving the Creation and Understanding of Business Process Models. Quality Engineering PhD Workshop, Obergurgl, Austria, November 2012.

- Making the Case for Measuring Mental Effort. EESSMod ’12, Innsbruck, Austria. October 2012.

- Expressiveness and Understandability Considerations of Hierarchy in Declarative Business Process Models. BPMDS ’12, Gdańsk, Poland, June 2012.

- Assessing Process Models with Cognitive Psychology. EMISA ’11, Hamburg, Germany, September 2011.

- Creating Declarative Process Models Using Test Driven Modeling Suite. CAiSE Forum ’11, London, UK, June 2011.
- The Impact of Testcases on the Maintainability of Declarative Process Models. BPMDS ’11, London, UK, June 2011.

- Alaska Simulator–Supporting Empirical Evaluation of Process Flexibility. BPM ’09, Ulm, Germany, September 2009.

Publications
2013
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J. Pinggera, M. Furtner, M. Martini, P. Sachse, K. Reiter, S. Zugal and B. Weber: Investigating the Process of Process Modeling with Eye Movement Analysis. In: Proc. ER-BPM ’12, pp. 438–450, 2013.
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C. Haisjackl, S. Zugal, P. Soffer, I. Hadar, M. Reichert, J. Pinggera and B. Weber: Making Sense of Declarative Process Models: Common Strategies and Typical Pitfalls. In: Proc. BPMDS ’13, pp. 2–17, 2013.
2012
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T. Gschwind, J. Pinggera, S. Zugal, H. Reijers and B. Weber: A Linear Time Layout Algorithm for Business Process Models. Technical Report RZ3830. IBM Research
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V. Torres, S. Zugal, B. Weber, M. Reichert, C. Ayora and V. Pelechano: A Qualitative Comparison of Approaches Supporting Business Process Variability. In: Proc. rBPM ’12, pp. 560–572, 2012.
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S. Zugal, C. Haisjackl, J. Pinggera and B. Weber: Empirical Evaluation of Test Driven Modeling. International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (accepted), 2012
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S. Zugal, P. Soffer, J. Pinggera and B. Weber: Expressiveness and Understandability Considerations of Hierarchy in Declarative Business Process Models. In: Proc. BPMDS ’12, pp. 167–181, 2012.
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P. Pichler, B. Weber, S. Zugal, J. Pinggera, J. Mendling and H. Reijers: Imperative versus Declarative Process Modeling Languages: An Empirical Investigation. In: Proc. ER-BPM’11, pp. 383–394, 2012.
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J. Pinggera, T. Porcham, S. Zugal and B. Weber: LiProMo-Literate Process Modeling. In: Proc. CAiSE Forum ’12, pp. 163–170, 2012.
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S. Zugal, J. Pinggera, H. Reijers, M. Reichert and B. Weber: Making the Case for Measuring Mental Effort. In: Proc. EESSMod ’12, pp. 37–42, 2012.
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J. Pinggera, P. Soffer, S. Zugal, B. Weber, M. Weidlich, D. Fahland, H. Reijers and J. Mendling: Modeling Styles in Business Process Modeling. In: Proc. BPMDS ’12, pp. 151–166, 2012.
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B. Holzner, J. Giesinger, J. Pinggera, S. Zugal, F. Schöpf, A. Oberguggenberger, E. Gamper, A. Zabernigg, B. Weber and G. Rumpold: The computer-based health evaluation system (CHES): a software for electronic patient-reported outcome monitoring. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 12(126), 2012
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S. Zugal, J. Pinggera and B. Weber: Toward Enhanced Life-Cycle Support for Declarative Processes. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process 24(3):285–302, 2012
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J. Pinggera, S. Zugal, M. Weidlich, D. Fahland, B. Weber, J. Mendling and H. Reijers: Tracing the Process of Process Modeling with Modeling Phase Diagrams. In: Proc. ER-BPM ’11, pp. 370–382, 2012.
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J. Claes, I. Vanderfeesten, H. Reijers, J. Pinggera, M. Weidlich, S. Zugal, D. Fahland, B. Weber, J. Mendling and G. Poels: Tying Process Model Quality to the Modeling Process: The Impact of Structuring, Movement, and Speed. In: Proc. BPM ’12, pp. 33–48, 2012.
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V. Torres, S. Zugal, B. Weber, M. Reichert and C. Ayora: Understandability issues of approaches supporting business process variability. Technical Report ProS-TR-2012-03. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
2011
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S. Zugal, J. Pinggera and B. Weber: Assessing Process Models with Cognitive Psychology. In: Proc. EMISA ’11, pp. 177–182, 2011.
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S. Zugal, J. Pinggera, J. Mendling, H. Reijers and B. Weber: Assessing the Impact of Hierarchy on Model Understandability-A Cognitive Perspective. In: Proc. EESSMod ’11, pp. 123–133, 2011.
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S. Zugal, J. Pinggera and B. Weber: Creating Declarative Process Models Using Test Driven Modeling Suite. In: Proc. CAiSE Forum ’11, pp. 16–32, 2011.
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R. Pérez-Castillo, B. Weber, J. Pinggera, S. Zugal, I. García-Rodríguez de Guzmán and M. Piattini: Generating event logs from nonprocess-aware systems enabling business process mining. Enterprise Information Systems 5(3):301–335, 2011
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S. Zugal, J. Pinggera and B. Weber: The Impact of Testcases on the Maintainability of Declarative Process Models. In: Proc. BPMDS ’11, pp. 163–177, 2011.
2010
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B. Weber, J. Pinggera, S. Zugal and W. Wild: Alaska Simulator Toolset for Conducting Controlled Experiments. In: Proc. CAiSE Forum ’10, pp. 205–221, 2010.
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B. Weber, J. Pinggera, S. Zugal and W. Wild: Handling Events During Business Process Execution: An Empirical Test. In: Proc. ER-POIS ’10, pp. 19–30, 2010.
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A. Kaser, B. Weber, J. Pinggera and S. Zugal: Handlungsorientierung bei der Planung von Softwareprojekten. Poster session presented at: TEAP ’10, 2010.
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J. Pinggera, S. Zugal, B. Weber, D. Fahland, M. Weidlich, J. Mendling and H. Reijers: How the Structuring of Domain Knowledge Can Help Casual Process Modelers. In: Proc. ER’10, pp. 445–451, 2010.
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J. Pinggera, S. Zugal and B. Weber: Investigating the Process of Process Modeling with Cheetah Experimental Platform. In: Proc. ER-POIS ’10, pp. 13–18, 2010.
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J. Pinggera, S. Zugal and B. Weber: Investigating the Process of Process Modeling with Cheetah Experimental Platform. EMISA Forum 30(2):25–31, 2010
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M. Weidlich, S. Zugal, J. Pinggera, B. Weber, H. Reijers and J. Mendling: The Impact of Sequential and Circumstantial Changes on Process Models. In: Proc. ER-POIS ’10, pp. 43–54, 2010.
2009
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B. Weber, J. Pinggera, S. Zugal and W. Wild: Alaska Simulator – A Journey to Planning. In: Proc. XP ’09, pp. 253–254, 2009.
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J. Pinggera, S. Zugal and B. Weber: Alaska Simulator – Supporting Empirical Evaluation of Process Flexibility. In: Proc. WETICE ’09, pp. 231–233, 2009.
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M. Droop, M. Flarer, J. Groppe, S. Groppe, V. Linnemann, J. Pinggera, F. Santner, M. Schier, F. Schöpf, H. Staffler and S. Zugal: Bringing the XML and Semantic Web Worlds Closer: Transforming XML into RDF and Embedding XPath into SPARQL. In: ICEIS ’08, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 31–45, 2009.
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D. Fahland, J. Mendling, H. Reijers, B. Weber, M. Weidlich and S. Zugal: Declarative versus Imperative Process Modeling: The Issue of Maintainability. In: Proc. ER-BPM’09, pp. 65–76, 2009.
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D. Fahland, D. Lübke, J. Mendling, H. Reijers, B. Weber, M. Weidlich and S. Zugal: Declarative versus Imperative Process Modeling: The Issue of Understandability. In: Proc. EMMSAD ’09, pp. 353–366, 2009.
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B. Weber, S. Zugal, J. Pinggera and W. Wild: Experiencing Process Flexibility Patterns with Alaska Simulator. In: Proc. BPMDemos ’09, pp. 13–16, 2009.
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B. Weber, H. Reijers, S. Zugal and W. Wild: The Declarative Approach to Business Process Execution: An Empirical Test. In: Proc. CAiSE ’09, pp. 470–485, 2009.
2008
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S. Zugal: Agile versus Plan-Driven Approaches to Planning – A Controlled Experiment. Master’s thesis, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Computer Science, 2008.
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M. Droop, M. Flarer, J. Groppe, S. Groppe, V. Linnemann, J. Pinggera, F. Santner, M. Schier, F. Schöpf, H. Staffler and S. Zugal: Embedding Xpath Queries into SPARQL Queries. In: ICEIS (1), pp. 5–14, 2008.
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J. Pinggera, S. Zugal, B. Weber, W. Wild and M. Reichert: Integrating Case-Based Reasoning with Adaptive Process Management. Technical Report TR-CTIT-08-11. Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente
2007
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M. Droop, M. Flarer, J. Groppe, S. Groppe, V. Linnemann, J. Pinggera, F. Santner, M. Schier, F. Schöpf, H. Staffler and S. Zugal: Translating XPath Queries into SPARQL Queries. In: OTM Workshops (1), pp. 9–10, 2007.

