A cognitive engineering study on the development of an object oriented process modeling formalism

The task of business engineering (BE) would be effective if provided with tools that support the analysis and understanding of a business system. The study aims at: 1) empirically investigating the cognitive processes of analyzing multiple models of the object oriented methodology; 2) identifying the problem solving strategy for understanding a business system; and 3) proposing a modeling formalism that fits the problem solving strategy. The results of this study show that existing object oriented methodologies need to be revised for providing integrated and multi dimensional views of the core business process. We suggest low level use case diagrams and time, cost and quality dimensional message trace diagrams to provide a comprehensive modeling formalism of object oriented business engineering