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role types as such do not imply anything in terms of being active or passive. A role can
be filled by any type of Resource. The default icon for Role is a circle (Figure B.4).
Figure B.4: EEML Resource role
B.2 Recourses Modeling Domain
Resources are things that play specific roles during the process execution or in the
organization in general. The resource roles may vary greatly, - some resources are
typically viewed as enablers, whereas others comprise the result (or part thereof) of the
process.
EEML distinguishes between 6 types of resources, namely Person, Organization,
Software Tool, Manual Tool, Material Object, and Information Object.
The typical way of connecting resources to processes is to assign them to resource
roles included in the process, or attaching them to flows between tasks e.g. document
flow.
The notations of those resources are illustrated in Figure B.5.
Figure B.5: EEML Resources
B.3 EEML modeling relationships
Besides the above object types, EEML defines a set of relationships to link those object
types. The relationships are: flows into (between two Decision Points), has part
(between a Task and its components, or between a Resource and its component Resources),
has input port (between a Task and its Input Port), has output port (between
a Task and its Output Port), has resource role (between a Task and its components of
type Role), collaborates with (collaborations between two Tasks), is filled by (between
Roles and its assignment of Resources), is candidate for (the possible filling of a Role