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Deriving process models for workflow management systems from audit trails

US6278977A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

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

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 31, 1998
Grant date	Aug 21, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 31, 2018

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06Q10/0633
WIPO fieldIT methods for management
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to the area of workflow management systems (WFMS). More particularly the invention is related to a methodology of automatically deriving and steadily improving a process model executed by the WFMS. The current invention dramatically simplifies and automates the process of model a business model of a business process. The invention allows to start just with set of unrelated activities and discover the real world relations between them at a later point in time; data mining and OLAP technologies are exploited for this discovery. The current invention thus proposes a posteriori methodology. For that purpose the precise underlying process model is derived at a later point in time based on audit data collected by the WFMS during the early deployment of a process model.

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