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Dear list members Sorry if you have received this message more than once. To facilitate discussions during Workshop on Practical Business Process Modeling, I started to draft a document "Process Support Systems - Requirements" that is placed on the WEB, see http://www.ibissoft.se/pbpm/Requirements.htm. The documents discusses systems functionality, like: - Providing help in execution of activities/tasks - Keeping track on activities performed - Providing help in planing new activities. - Coordinating many participants of the process - Distributing limited resources - Reminding the workers what they are supposed to do - Drawing attention of the managers to the processes with potential problems - Providing easy access to all relevant information - Enforcing organizational policies and general properties, like: - Flexibility to handle processes that deviate from the standard pattern. - Tolerance to organizational changes - Tolerance to process definitions changes - Friendly and consistent user-interface Everybody is invited to participate in the discussions and make own suggestions on which features should be added to/deleted from the list, which ones should be redefined, etc. The goal is to prepare a collective document that could be discussed during the workshop, and published afterwards. Personal participation in the workshop is not mandatory for participating in the discussions, "virtual" participation is sufficient. Please, send all critique and suggestions, to [log in to unmask] For those of you who wishes to participate personally, I would like to remind that the deadline for submissions is 25 of March. Submissions (no more than 5 pages) should be sent by e-mail to [log in to unmask] in any of the following formats: HTML, ASCII, MSWord (please mention version and platform). HTML submissions are preferred. The workshop's abstract runs as follows: Wide spread use of Internet leads to increasing volumes of customer requests and often results in the business environment where a relatively small staff handles a large amount of business processes. Effective management of business processes is impossible without a supporting computer system. In such system, not only internal staff are the users, but the customers as well (via Internet). The road to building process support systems goes through modeling business processes. The workshop is aimed to discuss Business Process Modeling from the viewpoint of application system development. Three most important topics are suggested for discussions: (a) conceptual model that gives us a common language to talk about business processes, (b) formal model and knowledge representation, (c) methods for extracting the end-user's knowledge. The results of discussions on each topic are expected to be summarized in a working document that will be produced directly after the workshop. These documents and a selection of the best papers will be considered for publishing in a special issue of an international journal. Details see in http://www.ibissoft.se/pbpm/pbpm00.htm Sincerely Ilia Bider =========================================== Ilia Bider Email: [log in to unmask] IbisSoft ab, Sweden http://www.ibissoft.se International workshop on Practical Business Process Modeling: http://www.ibissoft.se/pbpm/pbpm00.htm %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%