The IPSE Project Process Modelling as a Basis for a Support Environment

This paper examines the work undertaken in the UK Alvey funded project IPSE from the point of view of the approach taken to the development of the core sys tem It outlines the reasoning which led to the decision to base the system on a active process core rather than the more traditional approaches which have tended to support an entity derived model It gives a brief overview of the project with an emphasis on the notion of a Pro cess Control Engine It outlines the basic concepts behind the Process Modelling Language PML and the Process Model for Management Support PMMS with particu lar attention being paid to the representation of process change during the execution of a process model It then illustrates the approach using a case study of an active process