Process modeling

This section builds on the previous discussion on Process concepts and shows how they are applied to Process modeling.

Defining the Process Context

It was mentioned in the previous section that understanding why a Process, or a set of Processes, is required is essential. The concept of a Context has been mentioned on a number of occasions so far in this book. In this section, an example will be provided for the first time with a high-level explanation, and a detailed description of Contexts will be provided in the next chapter.

The car example will be revisited for the Process-modeling Views that will be presented, the first of which is shown in the following figure:

Figure 5.4: A Process Context View showing the rationale for the Process Set

The preceding figure contains a Process Context View that shows the rationale for a set of Processes, visualized using a SysML use case diagram. This is the first time that a use case diagram has been...