Communications of the ACM
Concepts in configuration management systems
SCM '91 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software configuration management
Introducing Objectcharts or How to Use Statecharts in Object-Oriented Design
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Process Modelling and Technology
Software Process Modelling and Technology
Exploiting an event-based infrastructure to develop complex distributed systems
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
The JEDI Event-Based Infrastructure and Its Application to the Development of the OPSS WFMS
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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This paper proposes a conceptual framework and supporting architecture for general-purpose process modeling and enactment. The framework includes abstractions of all critical entities and their relationships needed to model complex tasks in a distributed environment. We are able to support multi-paradigm process descriptions, since the support system only sees process execution as operations executed by agents. We do, however support division and delegation of activities. The supporting architecture is based on industry-standard communication and distribution mechanisms (CORBA) in order to make the services available to a wide variety of computers, operating systems, and communication protocols. We propose a way to integrate process modelling and enaction with existing configuration management systems and other repositories responsible for the storage and management of the artifacts handled by the processes. Possible application areas for the proposed system include software engineering, other design processes, logistics control, office automation, and enhanced electronic communication.