Process (Modeling)
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1 - About
A process may be:
- a natural process (ie organizational) performed by human: (Business) Process (BP) - Procedure
- or a machine process:
2 - Articles Related
3 - Model
A process may be seen as a succession:
Several processes working together forms a system
It's ultimately a serie of operation.
4 - Vizualization
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
5 - Workflow (Process management)
Workflow is a label for systems which enable:
- the building of process definitions
- and the execution of processes.
6 - Analysis
- The analysis of several process at once is called Systems_analysis - Systems_analysis Graph