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Generating event-condition-action rules from process models

  • US 6,826,579 B1
  • Filed: 02/04/2000
  • Issued: 11/30/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/06/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computerized method in a computer system for said system to take a process-model of a workflow-management-system and, without user input, automatically generate an automatically executable implementation of the business process modeled by the Process-model as trigger-specifications executable within a trigger-system, said process-model comprising at least one source-activity S and a target-activity T and a control-connector defining a potential control flow from said source-activity to said target-activity associated with a transition-condition P, comprising the steps of:

  • receiving as input a process-model comprising at least one source-activity S and a target-activity T and a control-connector, defining a potential control flow from said source-activity to said target activity associated with a transition-condition P;

    automatically transforming said source-activity S into a trigger-event TERMINATE(S), without user input, whereby said trigger-event, if raised at run-time, indicates to said trigger-system that an instance of said source-activity has been terminated;

    automatically transforming said control-connector into a trigger-condition, without user input, whereby at run-time, once said trigger-event has been raised, said trigger-system evaluates the truth value of said transition-condition; and

    automatically transforming said target-activity T into a trigger-action START(T), without user input, whereby at run-time, in case said trigger-condition evaluates to TRUE, said trigger-system starts an instance of said target-activity;

    wherein in said process-model said target-activity is a join-activity being the target of at least one further control-connector associated with a further transition-condition P2, said method further comprising;

    transforming, if said workflow-management-system defines said target-activity to be started in case either one of said transition-conditions evaluates to TRUE, said control-connector into a trigger-condition by logically ORing said transition-condition and said further transition-condition (P OR P2); and

    transforming, if said workflow-management-system defines said target-activity to be started in case all of said transition-conditions evaluate to TRUE, said control-connector into a trigger-condition by logically ANDing said transition-condition and said further transition-condition (P AND P2).

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