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Method for generating a workflow on a computer, and a computer system adapted for performing the method

  • US 20030084016A1
  • Filed: 10/26/2001
  • Published: 05/01/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for generating a workflow on a computer for guiding a user through a sequence of activities, said method comprising the steps of:

  • obtaining assessment data from the user, said assessment data defining a need, problem, state, or desired change of state, creating a workflow based on said assessment data using an assessment system, said workflow describing a logical sequence of interdependent steps to be performed to complete said task, each step having a start and a finish, which may be coincidental, and presenting said user for one or more of said workflow steps in a logical order, wherein said workflow is modified by;

    gathering results from the progress of each of said one or more steps, modifying, if needed, the structure of said workflow using said assessment system, sub-solutions, logic rules, inference rules and said results by adding and/or removing steps to/from said workflow based on a list of purposes and knowledge of the order in which some or all steps must be executed, and continuing through said workflow starting the next one or more unfinished steps which is not dependent on an unfinished steps as a sequence predecessor, thereby forming an adaptive procedure.

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