I know it's Saturday night, and I'm going to ask a question that reveals my true self and I need you all to be chill. Here goes: Is there a good DSL for business process automation or a simplified version of BPNM out there? Like for describing editorial workflow with constraints?
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A language or descriptive grammar that could power a kanban board basically. Is there something people reach for or is it just so simple we all roll our own? Or if you're going enterprise you go with something at the scale of BPNM and never look back?
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I used Allen’s temporal interval calculus formalism for building a custom thing for my postdoc research back in the day. It’s more expressive than kanban though. More Gantt chart level. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%27s_interval_algebra …
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There was a fair amount of work within/beyond the general STRIPS formalism (which came a decade after after GPS, out of SRI ~1971) into the 90s, and a model called HTN that goes beyond. But all hit complexity wall. Scheduling is even worse. But domain-specific heuristics do well.
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“Scheduling” is more often used in the OR community. Back in my day, AI people seemed to consider it industrial slumming below their dignity 
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