Process

An organized set of actions or sub-processes that takes inputs and transforms them into outputs.

In Logic Model, a Process is a function that maps Inputs to Outputs. Technically speaking, a Process is inseparable from Inputs and Outputs, therefore, a Process can be considered as a system of Resources. From an operational viewpoint, every Process should be associated with a timeline, which specifies the starting and ending points of process execution in real-world time.

Process in the era of Big Data

To help explain the nature of a process, Ansible as a tool came out particularly relevant. It provides a process abstraction model that unified a number of essential ideas that PKC promotes as architectural elements:

1. The yaml format data representation for its programming language, which subscribes to the notion of key-value pair representation of data.
2. Multi-layered annotation of a task/process, which is similar to Logic model.
3. Directly programmable to perform sequential and parallel tasks on networked computing resources.
4. Provides both declarative and imperative programming models.

Processes should be modeled as Dynamical Systems

All processes by definition must deal with ordered events. To represent dynamical systems using simple primitives, Category Theory offers a highly condensed notation to describe dynamical systems. Richard Southwell has a video tutorial on dynamical systems.

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Related Pages

Meta Logic Model