ENACTABLE PROCESS SPECIFICATION IN SUPPORT OF PROCESS-CENTERED ENVIRONMENTS

The path to process automation can be broken into three phases: static process definition; enactable process specification; and real-time pr ocess execution. These phases respectively support an understanding of the process, the development of its behavioral characteristics, and i ts application to project support. As is shown in this paper, these th ree phases can be closely tied together using a graphical notation tha t unifies them. A previous paper has discussed one possible notation, ProNet. The main focus of this paper is to extend this notation to the second phase: enactable process specification. The paper also briefly discusses further extensions needed for real-time project support.