Process Weaver: adding process support to UNIX

A description is given of Process Weaver, a set of tools that adds process support capability to UNIX-based environments, including heterogeneous environments with UNIX servers and PC workstations. IT comprises languages and language-based graphical editors for describing processes from three perspectives: a project management perspective, a team-interworking perspective, and the perspective of individual team members. Process descriptions are structured into fragments that are individually enactable. Process enactment assists in managing the flow of information in project teams, provides individuals with task-specific work environments, and automates activities that can be performed without human intervention. Enactment of process descriptions may be achieved under process control, which means that Process Weaver can support process evolution in a controlled manner. Enactment is fully distributed, and takes advantage of underlying tool integration mechanisms for process control of tools.<>