文档介绍：Business Process Management: The Third Wave: Business
Process Modelling Language (BPML) and Pi-Calculus
Foundations
Howard Smith
Chief Technology Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation EMEA
Co-founder and Co-chair Business Process Management Initiative ()
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Abstract
A process modeling language, Business Process Modeling Language (BPML), has been published
by the that provides many of the features practitioners and researchers have sought for years.
This language is based on standards widely accepted by the IT industry and underpinned by a strong
mathematical foundation, the Pi-Calculus. Perhaps more surprising is that real world, industrial
strength, implementations of this language exist in systems that could perhaps be as significant as the
first implementations of E. F. Codd’s Relational Algebra and that led to the ess of IT industry
giants such as Oracle Corporation and SAP.
This breakthrough in providing a process centric, not data centric, foundation for all business
systems is described in a new business book puter Sciences Corporation1 entitled Business
Process Management: The Third Wave (). While BPML, like the relational model of
data before it, is no panacea, early practical experience has shown that it offers a considerable step
forward in supporting a wide variety of dynamic processes and