Index
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Race conditions, 314, 322
Rapid prototyping environments, 515
Reciprocal dependencies, 85, 87
Recombinator. See Process Recombinator
Reengineering. See Business process reengineering
Reengineering the Corporation (Hammer and Champ), 274
Refinement, 162–64
exhaustive process decomposition as, 168–73
Refining transformation, 137
for dataflow diagrams, 147–49, 168–73
for state diagrams, 139, 164–66
Rendezvous interprocess communication paradigm, 322
Replication of resources, 319
Repository of knowledge. See Knowledge repository
Research, multi-level, 177–78
Research agendaon coordination, 76–78, 107–108
on grammatical models of organizational processes, 211–14
Research facilitation, and conflict repository, 457, 460–61
Research framework, process-centered, 183–84
Research paradigms, and processes, 182–83
Resource access, 298
Resource allocationand coordination, 52–54, 94–95
and nonshareable resources, 98–99
''scientific communities'' for, 74–75
Resource allocation algorithms, analyzing stability properties of, 75
Resource flow graphin Davenport's process innovation, 264–67, 268
in Hammer and Champy's business process reengineering, 275–79
Resource flows, generic model of, 300–302
accessibility dependencies in, 304–305
and flow dependencies, 319–23
prerequisite dependencies in, 306–13
sharing dependencies in, 314–19
timing dependencies in, 323–32
usability dependencies in, 302–304
Resource replication, 319
Resourcescomposition of, 106
and coordination, 91
and managing dependencies among multiple tasks and resources, 96–102
and managing of task-resource dependencies, 91–96
dependencies between, 102–103
identifying of (process description technique), 345–46
nonshareable, 98–99
as represented in Process Handbook, 253
shareable, 97–98
in software systems, 293
and tasks, 52
taxonomy of, 297–300
Resource sharing, 299–300
Resource sharing dependency, 294, 314
Resource transportability, 298
Resource usability. See Usability dependencies
Restaurant food service, grammar of, 193–94, 194, 212
Restaurant information systemas process specialization example, 140–43
as service-process example, 185–88
Restriction of access to resources, 315–18, 319
Reusability, 97, 478
Reusable components, for software system design, 127, 513–14
Role-Commitment-Violation analysis, 424
Rule-based grammar of organizing, 200–201