Collaboration and composition: issues for a second generation process language
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Asset mapping: developing inter-enterprise solutions from legacy components
Systems engineering for business process change
RICES: reasoning about information consistency across enterprise solutions
Systems engineering for business process change
Modelling architectures for dynamic systems
Programming methodology
ICSR '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Reuse
Implementing Hierarchical Features in a Graphically Based Formal Modelling Language
COMPSAC '04 Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
User assistance for complex systems
Proceedings of the 30th ACM international conference on Design of communication
| Hi-index | 0.02 |
When trying to describe the behaviour of large systems, such as the business processes of large enterprises, we often adopt diagramming techniques based on derivatives of data flow diagrams. For very complex systems such diagramming techniques suffer from the inability to abstract uniformly from arbitrary subcollections of components. We present an extension to conventional diagramming techniques which solves this problem. We describe how we have applied this technique to some very complex business systems and illustrate its main points with a simple example. While we have used the notation to present models of business processes we conclude that it is applicable to the description of behaviour in any complex system of processes.