Volker Gruhn (Universität Dortmund):
Process Landscaping - A Petri Net based Method for Structuring Complex Processes
Processes (software processes as well as other business processes)
usually cover various activities from several subprocesses. Models of
these processes tend to become rather complex. Mechanisms to structure
these models are needed. The process landscapig approach allows to
model processes on different abstraction levels without loosing the
overview about the whole framework of processes and their interfaces.
It also ensures that key decisions about processes are not burdened by
an overwhelming amount of detail. In this presentation we discuss the
method of process landscaping in the light of real-world business
processes from a telecommunication company. We formalize some of the
most important terms around the notion of a process landscape and we
use this formalization to formulate some consistency conditions for
process landscapes.
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