Generating process models from workflow logs

US6038538A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Rakesh Agrawal · San Jose, US
• Dimitrios Gunopulos · San Jose, US
• Frank Leymann · Aidlingen, DE
• Dieter Roller · Schenefeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 15, 1997
• Grant date: Mar 14, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 15, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99939
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and article of manufacture that constructs graph models from logs of past, unstructured executions of the given process. The graph model so produced conforms to the dependencies and past executions present in the log. By providing graph models that capture the previous executions of the process, this technique allows easier introduction of a workflow system and evaluation and evolution of existing processes.