Using a visual software engineering language for specifying and analysing workflows

Workflow is an essential topic for today´s business and visual representations play a well accepted role in this area. Despite the fact that most requirements for engineering complex software systems apply also to workflow management systems, the lack of adequate methods for system dynamics which are essential in the process oriented workflow area prevent object oriented techniques from playing the important role they should have in workflow modeling. The OCoN approach carries the benefits of visual software engineering techniques to the workflow area by combining UML static notations with more powerful Petri net based description techniques for system dynamics