Weekly Briefing (27-10-2006)

This week we didn’t obtain any progress on our Business Process plug-in.

We already have a Jan Mendling paper about density as a complexity metric, and we’ll try to implement its proposed formula as soon as possible.

We also know what to do after finishing the plug-in. Our advisor proposed us the creation of a new metric to calculate a business process complexity based on its visual representation. Basically the idea is: If a business process graph is hard to visually understand, then it is proportionally complex. Even though, this is still an idea that requires some research. Next week we’ll start researching the graphviz algorithm to see if this idea can really be implemented.

We still didn’t mention it, but we are also doing another project in parallel with this one. That project is being made for DTIM. We are working on their facilities whit their development team in order to create two PHP modules for their framework that administrates the bibliographic and informatics resources.

Since we have these two projects, there will be some weeks, like this one, that we will have to fully concentrate our efforts in just one of them.

Even though, we leave you the first screen shot of our (incomplete) plugin.