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In this paper we present a procedural office model based on Petri nets. Coordination procedures are plans how to handle office tasks which concern several different office workers. After an informal introduction of coordination procedures and their use by office workers, we show how a formal definition of the model can be reached. We then give a language for specifying coordination procedures. Finally we present our plans to implement coordination procedures in a network of UNIX systems.
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Kreifelts, T. (1983). Coordination procedures: a model for cooperative office processes. In: Schindler, S., Spaniol, O. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen — Anwendungen und Betrieb. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68829-4_32
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