Processes of Condition/Event-Systems

This chapter deals with processes which can run on C/E-systems. One may be tempted to define a process of a C/E-system as a path of its case graph. But what we mean intuitively when speaking of processes is not adequately described by such a path: the total ordering of its elements does not give any information as to whether the events actually occur one after the other or whether they are independent of each other. The partial order in which events occur is only indirectly represented in the case graph by the set of all possibilities of occurrences as successions of steps.