Seeing BPMN in your message brought up a question. Can someone tell me 
how BPEL4People relates to BPMN and other
standards such as XPDL and BPDM? Is it possible to have a product 
supporting XPDL to also support BPEL4People?

H.Ozawa

Keith Harrison-Broninski wrote:
> Just to clarify.
>
> When the BPEL folk say "human interactions" they mean between 
> interactions between humans and systems (H2S).  This is what 
> BPEL4People sets out to deal with.
>
> This is a separate matter from interactions between humans and humans 
> (H2H), the domain of Human Interaction Management 
> <http://human-interaction-management.info> (HIM).  Such work is 
> collaborative, innovative, and adaptive - and cannot be supported with 
> a language such as BPEL, no matter how it is extended.  All mainstream 
> BPM languages, including graphical notations like BPMN, are based on 
> carrying out steps in a pre-defined sequence, which is not how humans 
> work together.
>

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