Talk:Process (disambiguation)

Process deserves page
Process is a concept used ubiquitously in science and deserves a page, whether it is to have my particular conceptual organization should be left up to the normal editing process. Please edit to page in a constructive way, explaining in some way how processes are defined and used in scientific theory. Fred Bauder 15:45 Jan 29, 2003 (UTC)

Computer multitasking and threads
Actually, a computer switches between threads when multitasking. A process can spawn many threads. Threads within a process share the same memory space. --82.77.40.8 10:41, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Process is not a Procedure
According to the Process Theory (see Wikipedia) 'sequence' is not typical for a Process. However, in Wikipedia the term 'sequence' is added to the definition of Process. Many others make the same mistake which results in a lot of misconfusion and misunderstanding. To avoid confusion with the term 'Procedure', the adition 'sequence' should be left out of the definition of 'Process'. That will make the definition suitable for all processes (how does for example a process 'Getting older' fit in the current definition in terms of a sequence ?; how a process 'Managing change' ?). For a similar reason the defintion of Procedure (see Wikipedia) should not claim that a Procedure may consist of Processes (though decomposition may be used both for Process and Procedure).

Process and Procedure are different ways to look at things that occur in our world: - with 'Process' one does that from a transformation point of view: which ((un)desired) outputs occur from which ((un)expected) inputs. In modelling organisations it is done with a perspective of 'are we doing the right things' (effectivity) - with 'Procedure' it is done from a more logistical point of view. In modelling organisations: 'are we doing the things right' (efficiency).

october 13, 2005

Louis van Diejen Louis@SpeqS.nl

Processes can be natural
It was an advance when we, as a civilization, realized that not all things have to come about by procedure, but rather can occur naturally, without the behest of a volitional agent, or by an act of will. Thus the natural in the first sentence of the article. A process can be natural. A procedure occurs by intention. --Ancheta Wis 15:01, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Page split
re: The page split template, this needs to be done. A lot of this stuff should be moved to Process (computer science). I'll do some of it if I can find time.

Split done
hello guys. i have completed with the diambigution page. please check it out, and see whats missing. Cyborg 16:09 april 14 2006 (UTC)