System for designing information control networks for modeling all kinds of processes
First Claim
1. A system for designing information control networks for modeling a process, including means for defining a set of independent procedures, said independent procedures comprising objects, including activities to be performed, AND-SOURCE or OR-SOURCE jumps, or AND-WELL or OR-WELL jumps, which together define the process to be modeled, means for representing each object as a different graphical symbol, means for assigning textual attributes and other information to the graphical symbols, means for representing the information as receptacles indicating a file, document or message, each receptacle having a different shade based on the information contained therein, means for defining logical links between the objects, and for defining logical links between the objects and the other information to define a process model in the form of a graph, said graph connecting activities by arrows drawn in a solid line, either directly or by way of a jump, wherein activities are also connected by dashed arrows to the information, and means for interactively manipulating the objects, attributes, information and links on a graphical screen of the information processing device.
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Abstract
A system for designing information control networks for modeling all kinds of processes, characterized in that the model considers the process as a set of independent procedures composed of objects represented by graphical symbols and accompanied by textual attributes and links between these objects and information which is represented in the form of graphs intended to be manipulated interactively on a graphical screen of a workstation.
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- 1. A system for designing information control networks for modeling a process, including means for defining a set of independent procedures, said independent procedures comprising objects, including activities to be performed, AND-SOURCE or OR-SOURCE jumps, or AND-WELL or OR-WELL jumps, which together define the process to be modeled, means for representing each object as a different graphical symbol, means for assigning textual attributes and other information to the graphical symbols, means for representing the information as receptacles indicating a file, document or message, each receptacle having a different shade based on the information contained therein, means for defining logical links between the objects, and for defining logical links between the objects and the other information to define a process model in the form of a graph, said graph connecting activities by arrows drawn in a solid line, either directly or by way of a jump, wherein activities are also connected by dashed arrows to the information, and means for interactively manipulating the objects, attributes, information and links on a graphical screen of the information processing device.
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