An overview of the SPADE project

Sergio Bandinelli, Alfonso Fuggetta, Carlo Ghezzi and Luigi Lavazza

Politecnico di Milano and CEFRIEL

The SPADE project aims at developing an environment to define, analyze, and execute process models defined in the SLANG process modeling language. This paper presents SLANG through a case-study and highlights the main features of the first prototype
implementation of the SPADE concept, called SPADE-1.
It illustrates the facilities provided by SLANG to support process evolution and shows how the SPADE-1 architecture supports integration of the process interpreter with external tools available in the environment.

Keywords and phrases: software process, process-centered environment, computer-supported cooperative work, process language, Petri net, object-oriented database.