Process (Modeling)

A process may be:

• a natural process (ie organizational) performed by human: (Business) Process (BP) - Procedure
• or a machine process:
  • Data Processing - (Pipeline | Compose | Chain)
  • Data Processing - Data Flow (ETL | Workflow | Pipeline)
  • OS - Process (Main Thread) / Program

A process may be seen as a succession:

• of state: Process Modeling - Process based model (Entity based)
• of event: Process Modeling - Event-oriented model (Event-Driven)

Several processes working together forms a system

It's ultimately a serie of operation.

As a process is a directed graph, all graph visualization tool or library may be used to represent a process.

They are generally all derivative/variant of what's called a flow chart

Diagram:

• Process - Sequence Diagram Viz
• UML - Activity Diagram
• Sankey diagrams visualize the magnitude of flow between nodes

See also: Business process vizualization

Workflow is a label for systems which enable:

• the building of process definitions
• and the execution of processes.

See Process - Workflow (Process Management)

• The analysis of several process at once is called Systems_analysis - Systems_analysis Graph

• Process - Poisson Process