Information Modeling and Relational Databases, 2nd Edition

15.4. Foundations for Process Theory

Process modeling is an application that has motivated many technologists to build automated systems to support process definition, execution, management, and so on. There are probably well over a hundred tools and techniques in current circulation, with more arriving all the time. Unfortunately, most of these approaches are based on vague intuitions about process features, with the result that their associated semantics are often a matter of guesswork. This is an unfortunate state of affairs if we have ambitions to derive information system elements from business models, because our model does not provide a definitive baseline to work from. The problems resulting from this have prompted interest in more formal ...