[Setools] Composite processes

[Alexandre Bergel]

hi!

What would be the typical use of your system? are you doing a phd ?
Transition of state for what ? What would be the restriction between  
the parent process and the children process ? how do you deal with  
concurrency ?

Cheers,
Alexandre


Am Sep 11, 2006 um 6:10 PM schrieb Balázs Kósi:

> Hi!
>
>>> I am exploring case linking and criteria mechanism, to implement
>>> "composite processes".
>>> Does it make sense?
>>
>> Mmmmm, need more explanation of what you mean.
>
> Sure :) Sadly i don't have a clear definition on what i want to  
> accomplish,
> because i don't have a clear view on the processes of the company,  
> which
> workings i want to automate. But probably sometimes later this
> (incremental process exploration) will be a subject of another thread.
>
> Luckily i have some idea on what i want to implement :) So: I want a
> mechanism for
> spawning new cases (of arbitary processes) on stage transition events
> (or maybe on case
> events in general). Such a new case will be linked (as a sub-case) to
> the parent case, and
> its state (more specially: its stage) can be used in the parents  
> criterions.
>
> Typical usage: the parent case steps in a stage, then it spawns some
> children cases. Then
> the stage's outgoing transition becomes enabled, when all of the
> children cases are in an
> end stage.
>
> I think this is already in the system (actions on transition events,
> case linking, and criterions). We need some mechanism (i overuse this
> word) to make it more explicit. And we need UI elements which support
> it (as for so much more things).
>
> What do you think?
>
> cheers: balazs
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