Chemical processes are often operated under high pressures, at high temperatures, and with fast material flows and complex manufacturing mechanisms. Thus, their operation is always more risky, environmentally more harmful, and potentially more dangerous than other types of manufacturing activities when abnormal or destructive situations arise. In the extreme, catastrophes, such as explosions, t...

Process maps provide a holistic view of all processes of an organization by visualizing their essential relationships. The design of a process map is of central importance as many organizations create them at the start of a business process management (BPM) initiative to serve as a framework. Despite this importance, the design of process maps is still more art than science, essentially because...

The approach CREWS-L’Ecritoire developed within the CREWS project tightly couples goal modelling and scenario authoring to elicit system requirements. The paper focuses on the process aspect of the approach. It presents the process model as composed of a map and associated guidelines. The map is a directed graph of intentions and strategies to flow from one intention to another. Intention achie...

From the point of view of mapping transformation, this paper presents a map generalization concept framework which regards generalization as two kinds of mapping procedures: spatial entity mapping and spatial relation mapping. According to the number change of participating entity, spatial entity mapping is classified as 1-1, n-1, n-n mapping. And spatial relation mapping is described as a comp...

Software organisations have for many years struggled to mature engineering practices using a variety of approaches. Over the last decade a new approach, known as software process improvement (SPI), has emerged and become widely used in the software industry. In this paper we position SPI in the landscape of initiatives that can be used in software organisations to mature their operations. A map...

cozero maps are generalized forms of cozero elements. two particular cases of cozero maps, slim and regular cozero maps, are significant. in this paper we present methods to construct slim and regular cozero maps from a given  cozero map. the construction of the slim and the regular cozero map from a cozero map are called slimming and regularization of the cozero map, respectively. also, we pro...