Abstract:
This thesis describes the development of PROSPEC, an internet-based system to specify processes. The user creates processes interactivly using an internet browser. The processes are viewed graphically and can be loaded/stored from/to a file.
PROSPEC provides a framework how business processes can be described. The first version explained here permits the description of business processes with event-driven process chains (EPK). The framework was developed using the concept of component-based software engineering. This should PROSPEC keep capable of being extended. So it should be easy for a software developer to realize another process model. The system can be used in practice (after adequate extensions) for optimizing business processes, process-oriented quality management and for knowledge management. For expecting the future users to be locally distributed, the system shall be usable over the internet. Therefore the object-oriented programming language Java was used for implementation. So it is possible to have a world-wide access to PROSPEC, because applications (in this case 'applets') written in Java can be executed with an internet browser.
