Process modeling becomes more and more an important task not only for the purpose of software engineering, but also for many
other purposes besides the development of software. Therefore it is necessary to evaluate the quality of process models from
different viewpoints. This is even more important as the increasing number of different end users, different purposes and
the availability of different modeling techniques and modeling tools leads to a higher complexity of information models. In
this paper the Guidelines of Modeling (GoM)1, a framework to structure factors for the evaluation of process models, is presented. Exemplary, Guidelines of Modeling for
workflow management and simulation are presented. Moreover, six general techniques for adjusting models to the perspectives
of different types of user and purposes will be explained.
This paper presents results from the research project Guidelines of Modeling (GoM), which was funded by the German Ministry
of Education, Science, Research, and Technology, project no.: 01 IS 604 A.