1. Process Support Tools and Formalism Exploration Team Apache Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine

2. Protege An extensible framework for the definition of domain ontologies.  Very suitable for an OO system design. Additional tools augment capabilities.  OntoViz Ontology visualization tool.  XML, XML Backend/Schema Backend Set of tools allowing use of XML.

3. Zope A content management system.  Common “look and feel.”  Document (configuration) management.  Mention of worflows and processes in the context of media solutions. “Zope is an open-source web application server.... writing web pages, programming web scripts, using databases, managing content, or doing a collaborative web development task …”

4. Argo/UML Graphical design environment for OO software design, development, and documentation. Design critics and a “to-do” list to support UML development.

5. Trying out Protege Defined class structures for process elements.  Using PML definitions as an initial basis [Noll and Scacchi2001]. Defined instances of these classes for a small example (OpenOffice). Created graphs for each.

6. Class Definition Capabilities

7. Class Graph Capabilities

8. XML Processing Capabilities

9. Class XML Output

10. Instance Definition Capabilities

11. Instance Graph Capabilities

12. Instance XML Output

13. Class Graph Output

14. Instance Graph Output

15. Instance Graph Output (2)

16. Conclusion Protégé seems able to handle most process formalization needs. Work needed for perfect handing  New plug-ins?  Enhanced plug-ins?  Tweaking of the model?