I-P2 |  | I-X Process Panel Based on I-X Technology from AIAI, University of Edinburgh |

### Anatomy of an I-X Process Panel

### Purpose

The aim of an I-X Process Panel (I-P2) is to act as a workflow, reporting and messaging "catch all" for its user. It can act in conjunction with other panels for other users if desired.

- Can take ANY requirement to:
  - Handle an issue
  - Perform an activity
  - Maintain a constraint
  - Note an Annotation
- Deals with these via:
  - Manual (user) activity
  - Internal capabilities
  - External capabilities (invoke or query/answer)
  - Reroute or delegate to other panels or agents (pass)
  - Plan and execute a composite of these capabilities (expand)
- Receives reports and messages and, where possible, interprets them to:
  - Understand current status of issues, activities and constraints
  - Understand current world state, especially status of process products
  - Help control the situation
- Copes with partial knowledge

### <I-N-C-A> Model

An I-X Process Panel supports a user or collaborative users in selecting and carrying out "processes" and creating or modifying "process products". Both processes and process products are abstractly considered to be made up on "Nodes" (activities in a process, or parts of a process product) which may have parts called sub-nodes making up a hierarchical description of the process or product. The nodes are related by a set of detailed "Constraints" of various kinds. A set of "Issues" is associated with the processes or process products to represent unsatisfied requirements, problems raised as a result of analysis or critiquing, etc.

Processes and process products in I-X are represented in the <I-N-C-A> (Issues - Nodes - Constraints - Annotations) Model of Synthesised Artifacts.

### Key

### Further Information

- I-X Process Panel Components:
  - I-P2 Help
  - I-DE Help
- I-X Further Information - http://i-x.info or http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/
- <I-N-C-A> Further Information - http://i-x.info/inca/ or http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/inca/
- I-X Contact - <i-x@i-x.info> or <i-x@aiai.ed.ac.uk>