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This paper describes how two modelling techniques, Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and Forrester's System Dynamics, could be exploited by a process engineer. These techniques have very different backgrounds: CSP is a specification language for concurrent systems, while System Dynamics is a technique of control theory and management science. Consequently each gives a different view of the process being modelled. We illustrate that both views are valuable and that comparing them can aid model development. This raises the issue of having a number of models giving different views of a software process as an alternative to a specialised process modelling language.
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Greenwood, R.M. (1992). Using CSP and system dynamics as process engineering tools. In: Derniame, JC. (eds) Software Process Technology. EWSPT 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 635. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017512
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