"Speaking of business processes, when humans are involved, it
makes very little sense to have a centralized, computer-based system
coordinating business processes on behalf of humans ..."
"The Human in the Machine", ZapThink
In this talk, Keith Harrison-Broninski will describe humanedj, an operating software founded directly on the principles of Human Interaction Management.
Humanedj is a new kind of process support system. It is a "personal process assistant" software that helps the user carry out any and all work activities in which they are engaged, facilitating tasks and interactions as necessary. It runs on the client machine(s) of each process participant, installing with a click. No server installation is required.
Further, humanedj provides support for the innovative, adaptive, evolutionary activities typical of collaborative human work. Think a continually re-negotiated set of contracts between process participants (in which you agree on interactions, deliverables and business rules - and assume that all these may change during the life of the process) as opposed to flowchart-style workflow/BPM (in which you have to agree on activity sequencing, loops and branch points).
Humanedj includes support for business rules, multi-agent system functionality, speech acts, XML schemas, ontologies, Web services, scripting languages, Web browsing, external document access, dynamic forms,...
It is a free software that is developed in Java as a set of Eclipse plug-ins using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. It has an open architecture and an open API, making it extensible.
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