Unified Process Specification Language: Requirements for Modeling Process

摘要

A wide range of applications deal with the manipulation and expression ofcollections of activities. Examples include project management, workflow management, business process reengineering, product realization process modeling, process planning, production scheduling, simulation, and Computer Aided Software Engineering, each of which is supported by some combination of graphical programming and control languages, Petri nets, PERT charts or other representation methodology. Each of these applications serves a specific audience and need, and focuses on particular aspects of a process. Nevertheless, much could be gained by sharing information among applications. One of the primary obstacles to such integration is the lack of any common representation of what is really the common underlying concept of process. The objective of the work described here is an investigation of the feasibility of a unifying specification of process which is applicable to all of the above applications, yet powerful and robust enough to meet each set of requirements. The document represents the